Field Notes

You never tagged it. Type "orange sky" and the sunsets come up.

Find any reference image by what's in it. No tagging.

Built for Windows. Opens RAW, HEIC, EXR and video.

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Example board · Light studies

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Cream and blush pink old-garden rose with ruffled petals against dark green leaves
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Soft pink rose opening with golden stamens
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Cluster of deep crimson-plum roses packed edge to edge
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Pink foxglove bells with speckled throats on a tall stem, green background
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Bright orange butterfly weed flower clusters among green leaves
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Close-up of a dried golden teasel seed head against soft green foliage
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Catmint flower spikes with a honeybee in warm late light
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Hand holding a round glass lens over pale pink roses, brick path below
Garden 8 items
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Ginger root floating against a saturated orange-yellow backdrop, finished edit
Palette

Palette · Still life

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Dried palm frond with its soft cast shadow on a warm amber backdrop
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Close-up of dark palm blades crossing a mustard-yellow backdrop
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Dark palm blades in silhouette against a soft peach backdrop
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Ginger root on red string beside a kitchen knife, mustard-yellow backdrop
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Three fortune cookies arranged on dark grey leather
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Steel fork upright with its long soft shadow on a grey backdrop
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Palm frond sweeping across a yellow backdrop with layered shadows
Still life 9 items
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Long wooden pier running out to a thatched gazebo and moored boat on calm sea under an overcast sky (infrared, sepia-toned)
Note

Saturday shoot

Arrive 6:40 for blue hour. Bring the 85 and the grey card.

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Sun setting over Santa Monica Bay, a golden reflection on the waves and small sailboats on the horizon
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Close-up of a pool surface with palm-frond reflections and rippled light over blue tile
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Clear shallow bay water with sunlight ripple patterns over sand and a strand of green seaweed
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Rippled shallow water over sand, rendered copper-brown by an infrared camera
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Freeform resort pool with a stone waterfall wall, sunlit yellow-green palms and turquoise water
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Minimal beach scene: a blue-gray sea with one line of white surf over smooth rosy-beige sand, hazy with no horizon
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Bands of apricot and grey clouds at sunset over silhouetted treetops
Water 9 items
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Infrared photo of tall conifers against a peach-copper sky with bright clouds
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Infrared backlit sun star through a young tree beside a tree-lined path
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Infrared view of a sandy trail curving under pitch pines rendered icy cyan against a copper-brown sky
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Infrared treeline and hooped garden arches under a bright peach and cyan cloudscape
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Ginkgo-lined path at evening with low sun catching the upper leaves
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Close view of dune grass with small white wildflowers, rendered blue-teal by infrared
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Infrared garden lawn opening onto rounded trees under a heavy copper sky
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Looking up into a cyan tree canopy with dark branches against a brown sky
Infrared 8 items

The real app

The same idea, recorded on Windows.

Above is an example board drawn on this page. Here is Field Notes itself: the sunset photo is two stacks deep, in Travel, then July trip. Type "orange sky" and it comes up, labelled "Matched by image." One click opens both stacks and selects it. Nothing tagged, nothing sped up.

Real app, recorded on Windows. Not sped up.

Example

A client asks for "those sunset shots from the shore." You never tagged them.

You type "orange sky" and they come up. You pick six, compare them side by side, and send a PDF contact sheet.

Without a search that sees what's in the picture, you spend another hour scrolling for a photo you know you saved.

How it works

  1. Drop in a folder.

    A Field Notes board of photos and three stacks, laid out in a grid.

  2. Search by what's in the picture: "orange sky", a word on a sign.

    Find with "orange sky" typed: 7 results, a sunset over the water first.

  3. Compare side by side, shortlist, and export a contact sheet as PDF or PNG.

Watch the one-minute tour

With music · captions in the picture

200 4K images and 20 video cards on one board, about 60 fps on Intel UHD graphics in our benchmark.

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  • Everything stays on your PC.
  • Your original files stay where they are.
  • AI is optional and can run on your PC.
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