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Vixlo 0.1

The import label

Every frame is filed, when it is imported, under a short label made from capture times. Vixlo 0.1 shows the label on screen in one case only, described below, but a search can reach it with group:, and so can a bare word. This page says how the label is made, how to search it, and what it does not do, which matters when you reach for it to find a day.

How the label is made​

Vixlo files a frame under a label made from capture times, in this Mac's time zone: the day the stretch of shooting began and how long it lasted, such as 14 Jun · 42 min or 14 Jun · 1h 20m. A frame with no capture time is filed under Undated.

Searching it​

group: matches the label as part of it, ignoring capitals.

  • group:"14 Jun" finds every frame filed under a label for the 14th of June.
  • group:undated finds the frames with no capture time.
  • group:"14 Jun" status:pick narrows the first of those to your takes.

Put the label in quotes when it has a space in it.

The search panel with group:"14 Jun" status typed and its results listed

Where it shows​

The label is not drawn on a frame, in the Groups pane or in Frames' headings. It appears in one place: on the cards that Session cards draws when the pass holds no frame with a capture time. The cards are then the library's import groups rather than sessions, and each is headed by its label, with a month such as June 2026, or a chapter name, above it. That is not a way to browse by import; Session cards says what happens and how to get sessions back.

Five things to know about it​

  • The label is fixed when the frame comes in, and a later import never changes it: a frame the library already holds is not filed again, even when a second import copies its file into the library. It is not the session name Vixlo shows, such as Maya and Noah · afternoon · Rome, Italy; that name follows the session gap and group: does not reach it.
  • Months are written as three English letters, whatever language your Mac uses.
  • It matches part of the label, so group:"9 Aug" also finds the 19th and the 29th.
  • It has no year. In a library that spans several years, group:"14 Jun" finds that day in each of them.
  • It names the day the stretch began. A stretch of shooting that ran past midnight is filed under the day it began, so group:"14 Jun" also finds its frames taken after midnight, and group:"15 Jun" does not find them.

When to use it​

group: is the nearest 0.1 comes to searching by the day on this Mac's clock, because date: counts days in UTC; Search has the caution. It is not exact either, for the reasons above, so check what it found before you trust it for a whole day.