Geyma — the file manager that remembers

01 · MEMORY

Files remember.

Every move, rename, star, and restore is logged — and that memory surfaces everywhere. A per-file activity timeline in the Details panel. A disk-wide Timeline module. And ghost trails: faint, dashed markers left behind in a folder showing where a file that just left actually went. Click one and Geyma takes you straight there.

No more “it was right here yesterday.” It was — and Geyma will show you where it went.

report.pdf → ~/Archive

report.pdf

WHAT THIS FILE REMEMBERS

Moved here from ~/Downloads09:12

Renamed from draft-v3.pdfTue

StarredMay 9

CreatedMay 2

WORKING SETS +

Fresh this week

smart · fills itself

Client hand-off

“send before Friday”

Starred images

smart · fills itself

GYSET.eyJuYW1lIjoiQ2xpZW50IGhhbmQtb2ZmIiwibm90ZSI6InNlbmQgYmVmb3JlIEZyaWRheSJ9… copied

02 · WORKING SETS

Playlists for files.

A Working Set is a playlist-like collection of file references — never copies. Files stay exactly where they live on disk; the set just follows them through moves, renames, trashing, and restoring. Attach a note, or make a set smart — a rule like starred, kind: image, or modified since… that fills itself live from the whole disk.

Share any set with anyone as a single GYSET. code. Items, rule, note — the whole thing round-trips.

03 · YOUR CHROME

Reshape everything.

There is no fixed layout. Every piece of UI — nav, search, sidebar panels, even the file grid itself — is a module you can drag between six layout zones, hide, or bring back. Eight full color skins, each overridable token by token: accent, font, radius, density, glow, background pattern.

Parchment

THE KEEPER

Obsidian

MIDNIGHT

Phosphor

TERMINAL

Synthwave

OUTRUN

+ NORD · AMBER CRT · PLASMA · PAPER — EDIT MODE SHOWN BELOW

Edit mode showing the modular layout and all eight color skins

04 · NETWORK PLACES

Servers are just folders.

sftp:// and smb:// paths flow through the exact same tabs, history — even working sets — as local ones. Discover nearby SMB devices, browse a NAS like it's Home, drag files between local and remote panes. Passwords live only in the OS keyring, strictly opt-in.

sftp://chris@nas:22/home smb://nas/Media/photos

05 · LOCAL AI

AI that never phones home.

Entirely optional, entirely local, via Ollama — no cloud calls, no API keys. Natural-language search (“starred photos from last week” becomes real filters), batch-rename suggestions, and on-demand folder summaries. Three features, each individually toggleable — and all of them off by default.

no cloud no API keys off by default

A closer look

Obsidian dark skin with a selected image file — Eight skins, light or dark — here, Obsidian

List view with sortable Kind, Size, and Modified columns — List view with sortable columns

Quick Look overlay previewing a PDF, with step arrows — Quick Look — Space to preview, arrow keys to step through the folder

Journal

TODAY

report.pdf

Moved here · from Downloads

09:12

invoice-04.png

Just arrived

NEW

notes.md

Renamed · from draft.md

08:40

YESTERDAY

old-build.zip

Moved to Trash

17:05

06 · ANDROID

Geyma goes mobile.

The same memory, in your pocket. Geyma Mobile is a native Kotlin + Jetpack Compose app that carries the desktop's core idea — files that remember — onto Android. Every move, rename, and fresh arrival lands in a searchable journal; tap any file for its full biography.

Cleanup ranked by what you’ve neglected, a duplicate spotter, a two-week activity summary, reminders to revisit files, and shareable collections that export as portable bundles. All eight desktop skins ship too — and, like the desktop, everything stays on your device: no network, no telemetry.

Kotlin + Jetpack Compose On-device only 8 skins Early v0.1

Get Geyma Mobile Grab the debug APK

v0.1, early access — CI builds a debug APK on every push (the geyma-mobile-debug artifact); there’s no Play Store or F-Droid listing yet. Archive preview and SFTP/SMB haven’t been ported from the desktop.

Everything you'd expect, too

Real file management, backed by Rust — and working-set references stay correct across every one of these operations.

Core operations

Cut, copy, paste, duplicate, recursive copy, symlinks, drag-and-drop moves — never a silent overwrite.

Recoverable Trash

Restore puts things back exactly where they came from. Permanent delete needs a double confirm. 20-deep undo.

The short version

OTHER FILE MANAGERS	GEYMA
Files	Files + their history
Folders	Working Sets that follow files
Fixed layouts	Modular chrome — drag every panel
Local disks	Local + SFTP + SMB, one path space
Cloud AI	Optional, fully local AI
Desktop only	Desktop + a native Android app

Get started in a browser.
Ship it as a desktop app.

A mock in-memory filesystem kicks in automatically outside the Tauri shell, so the full UI runs in a plain browser with no Rust toolchain. The real thing is a Tauri 2 desktop app — filesystem operations are Rust commands with unit test coverage.

Packaged early-access builds (.deb / .rpm / Arch / Flatpak / Snap) are on the releases page. It’s pre-1.0: keep backups, and file a bug if anything surprises you.

▸ React 18 + TypeScript + Vite

▸ Tauri 2 shell, Rust fs commands

▸ Zustand state

▸ .deb / .rpm / Arch / Flatpak / Snap

# grab it
git clone https://github.com/MadsenDev/geyma-file-manager
cd geyma-file-manager && npm install

# browser demo — mock fs, no Rust needed
npm run dev

# full desktop app
npm run tauri dev