Rediscover Forgotten Files With Random Discovery

The Problem With Big Libraries

You have 10,000 videos. You search for specific things. You watch what comes up. The rest — the other 9,800 clips you've never re-visited — might as well not exist.

This is the archive problem. It's not a search problem. It's a discovery problem. You can't search for footage you've forgotten exists.

The Dice Button

The dice button (the random shuffle icon in the toolbar) picks a random video from your current view and opens it. Click once. See something you forgot you had.

It sounds simple. In practice, it's the feature people use most often once they discover it.

Filter First, Then Randomise

Random discovery is much more powerful combined with filters.

Example: Random From a Category

Open the “Drone” category. Click dice. See a random drone clip from your entire library. Keep clicking to surface more.

Example: Random From a Date Range

Sort by date, filter to a specific year. Click dice. Revisit footage from that period you haven't thought about since you filmed it.

Example: Random From a Custom Tag

Apply a tag filter like keeper or needs-edit. Click dice. Work through your backlog in random order instead of top-to-bottom.

Keyboard Shortcut

Press R at any time to jump to a random video in the current view. No need to reach for the dice button. Stay in the keyboard flow.

Why Random Works

Humans are bad at exploring large archives systematically. We start at the top, get distracted, come back, start at the top again. We never reach page 47 of a 10,000-item library.

Random breaks the pattern. It throws you into parts of your library you never visit deliberately. You find things you forgot you had. You find things you want to re-watch. You find things you want to delete. All of which is useful.

Your best footage might be the clip you filmed three years ago and haven't thought about since. The dice button finds it.