Lisy - Windows desktop app for files management

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  Back-up

Inspiration

• Keeping an inventory of digital files on computers is of paramount importance.
• All of us routinely need to create back ups of drives or folders.
• We often like to have a slideshow of pictures stored in a folder.

What it does

• Lisy’s List button allows us to prepare lists of contents in a selected folder.
• Lisy’s Sync button can be used for syncing a target back-up folder with a source folder.
• Lisy’s View button allows us to slide through image files in a folder.

How we built it

• Lisy has been written using Google’s Go programming language, which is efficient and easy to use.
• After reviewing pros and cons of various GUI approaches, we have used Gioui package for the front-end graphical user interface.

Challenges we ran into

• We had to do several iterations for coding Lisy's View part.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• The Windows executable file Lisy.exe that we have built is small, portable, and immensely useful.

What we learned

• We have sharpened our skills in Go programming languages.
• We now understand different GUI approaches available for Go.

How to try:

• Download lisy.exe.txt from https://github.com/Lapyl/Lisy/lisy.exe.txt or https://lipy.us/docs/lisy.exe.txt to your local folder.
• Remove .txt from the name of the downloaded lisy.exe.txt file.
• If you want, you can add a shortcut of your local lisy.exe file.
• When needed, click lisy.exe (or its shortcut).
• For listing contents of a folder, fetch or write the folder's path in the Source folder box, and click List button. It will add two csv files of lists, in the folder.
• For backing up a folder A to another folder B, [carefully] fetch or write A's path in the Source folder box and B's path in the Backup folder box, and click Sync button.
• For a slideshow of image files from a folder, fetch or write the folder's path in the Source folder box, and click Show button. Close the app, when done.

What's next for Lisy

• Enable Lisy to accept arguments when used through a command prompt.
• Allow Lisy's Sync modules to remember and reuse users' inputs.
• Make Lisy's View part to close silently.

Built With

• gioui
• go