The folder
Mirada’s document is the folder. Opening one photo lists every image beside it, and the header says which folder you are in; the properties sidebar says where in it you are (“4 of 8”).
Stepping
| Key | Does |
|---|---|
| → Space Page Down | Next image |
| ← Backspace Shift+Space Page Up | Previous image |
| Home End | First and last image |
The floating arrows over the image and a sideways swipe on a Mac trackpad step too. Stepping is instant for the image either side: they are decoded as soon as the current one is up, and the window keeps the current image on screen until the next is ready, so it never flashes empty. Going back further is quick as well: the last two dozen images leave a preview behind, shown at once while the full resolution decodes again.
Hidden files are left out. Everything Mirada can open is listed: see Formats.
Order
By default the folder is in natural name order, the way a person counts, so IMG_9 comes
before IMG_10. It can also be sorted by date (when each file was last changed) or size,
and any of them reversed: from the palette (Sort by Name, Sort by Date, Sort by Size, Reverse
Order), the right-click menu, the menus, or Settings. The order is remembered.
Go to Image
Go to Image… (Ctrl+P, ⌘P) opens the palette over the folder’s file names,
with the current one under the cursor. Type part of a name, as loosely as you like (0412 finds
IMG_20260412_0930.jpg), and press Enter to show it. Names that match equally well stay
in the folder’s order.
Open Recent
Open Recent… (Ctrl+Shift+O, ⇧⌘O) is the palette over the last ten folders you opened, by name, with the path of the highlighted one under the list.
The thumbnail strip
T opens the strip: the folder’s images along the bottom of the window, the current one outlined. Click one to show it; drag one out to drop its file somewhere else. It is closed by default, and Settings can open it at start.
Thumbnails are made in the background, the ones in view first, up to four at a time, and one scrolled past before it was made is never made. For a photo from a camera or a phone, the strip shows the small copy of itself the JPEG already carries, when it is large enough and the photo’s shape, rather than decoding the photo, which is four to fifty times faster.
The strip has three variations, each in the palette, the menus and Settings:
- Thumbnails at the Side: a column down the left instead of a row along the bottom.
- Names Under Thumbnails: each thumbnail with its file name under it.
- Names Instead of Thumbnails: the folder as a list of file names, with no pictures at all, which suits a folder of thousands.