Siplicity Devlog

Devlog entry - Sunday, 20 October, 2024

Actionable analytics

This week I finished the first draft of Siplicity’s analysis pane.

Here’s how it looks:

As soon as you add files to the to the workspace, an initial set of reports is automatically created, with visualisations for file sizes, dates modified, and file extensions.

Running actions over the files in your workspace can produce further reports:

• the siegfried action creates format ID, format class and mime-type reports
• any of the checksum actions will generate a duplicate report.

All of the reports can be used as the basis for queries to the worspace pane. So that, for example, you can more closely inspect files from a particular date range or of a particular format type.

This connection between the analysis and workspace panes can power workflows like:

• identifying and removing zero-byte files
• selecting duplicate files for removal
• blacklisting sets of file formats
• whitelisting file formats for selection to the output pane.

In other words, Siplicity’s analytics produce more than insights. They are actionable.