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Grid or List? (lemmy.world)
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What is your favorite way to visualize... Anything, images, files, music, games, etc?

In grid is aesthetically appealing, but I find it very difficult to visually locate what I'm looking for quickly. In list, on the other hand, it's boring as fuck, but it's stupid easy to find anything.

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[–] megane_kun@lemm.ee 2 points 15 hours ago

I've used to like grids, but I'm now very partial to lists. I used to like how grids enable you to scan thumbnails quickly, (like in games, music, images and files), but now I find them to be quite distracting. In lists, if I know what I am looking for (name, file type, etc), I can quickly go to where I need to be, and only need to scan a few items.

Of course, if the list is incredibly long, it'd be more difficult, but even more so with a grid of thumbnails. The only possible exception here is images. Knowing when a photo was taken can give me a clue, but hell do I remember what I took that got saved as IMG_20230303163333.jpg is and how the content differs from IMG_2023030316303030.jpg

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 17 hours ago

Videos? Grid. Images? Grid. Both with preview window on the right.

Everything else? List with a preview window docked on the right. For everything other than music, I always soet by the last modified date, unless there's less than 10 files or so per folder, in which case alphabetical is preferred.

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Really depends on what I'm trying to visualize. Things that are inherently graphical I'd probably put in a grid to fit more on the screen. Text probably a list.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 22 hours ago

Grid for image previews. List for anything text.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

List, unless it's photos then grid thumbnails.

[–] Aquila@sh.itjust.works 3 points 21 hours ago

Mind map

[–] Kaigyo@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

If it has hierarchical organization like files/folders, then miller columns. I wish there was a decent Linux file browser with miller columns; it's one of my favorite things in macos.

If the cover art/thumbnail is helpful for quickly visually scanning, then grid. This is for things like my movies and shows in Kodi.

Everything else should be a list.

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Files: always a list. Photos: preferably a grid

[–] TokenEffort@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago

Lists with sub-lists

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 23 hours ago

ls -la, strictly.