swipe

swipe

A swipe-to-triage deck for digital cleanup. You point it at a source, it serves a card deck to your phone over your local WiFi, you swipe through the whole pile in one sitting, and the actions run as one reversible batch when you are done.

Why this exists

A folder with 300 screenshots is a wall. Cleaning it the normal way means 300 separate decisions, each with its own friction (open it, look at it, decide, find the next one), and that friction is exactly what task paralysis feeds on. So the folder just sits there, growing.

This collapses every decision into one flick of a thumb. One card, one swipe, next card. The deck shows up on your phone, so you can do it on the couch instead of staring at a file manager. Each swipe is its own tiny hit of done, and the momentum carries you through the pile that you would otherwise never start. Nothing is destructive in the moment: files go to the Trash (recoverable), text replies are staged for you to send later. The payoff is fast and visible, and you can undo.

Design rules that make it work, do not break them:

• Push, not pull. It loads the whole pile and hands it to you. It never makes you come back to fetch more.
• No guilt, no streaks, no counters that shame you. Just the deck and a running position.
• Reversible. Trash, not delete. Staged replies, not sent messages.
• One uninterrupted session. See below.
• Never make someone swipe blind. Every card should tell you enough to actually decide. See Previews below.

The engine is source-agnostic

The server and deck do not know or care what they are showing. They render whatever a manifest describes. A "source" is just an adapter script that emits that manifest. v1 ships two adapters (Files and iMessage); adding a new source (Gmail, Photos, a download queue, anything) is one new adapter that emits the same schema. That is what "point it at anything" means here.

Manifest schema (the contract)

{
  "source": "files",
  "title": "Downloads cleanup",
  "left":  { "label": "Trash", "kind": "trash" },
  "right": { "label": "Keep",  "kind": "keep"  },
  "reply": false,
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "0",
      "type": "image | file | text",
      "label": "headline (file/image card)",
      "sub": "subline, e.g. size and date, or a timestamp",
      "path": "/abs/path  (files: needed for thumbnail + action)",
      "thumb": true,
      "preview": "inline text preview shown on the card (files or text)",
      "sender": "headline for a text card",
      "handle": "who to reply to (text)",
      "row": 123
    }
  ]
}