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Free file manager for Windows · 0.6.0

The file manager that reads your files.

ext:pdf year:2026
PDF collection sorted by document year with a 2026 badge on every page thumbnail.

Everything a folder can tell you, in one window.

PDF viewer with the Markup toolbar: a red rounded rectangle around a diagram and a yellow highlight over a sentence.

PDF desk

Read, search, mark up, reorder, split, merge, optimise with a visual check.

Git graph view with Commits, Branches, Tags and Worktrees tabs: coloured lanes and merge curves, a branch chip and a tag chip, then SHA, date, author and message columns.

Git graph

Its own view: lanes, merge curves, branch and tag chips, and a commit selected instead of a file. Status on every file in the listing; writes only on a click.

Treemap of a repository coloured by Cognitive Complexity, every file a labelled rectangle sized by bytes, with the legend running from 0 through 40 plus, not computed and not code.

Complexity as colour

Treemap and Bubbles coloured by Cognitive Complexity, age, type, language, PDF class or Git status.

An FTP server browsed in the right pane with a 1920 by 1080 photograph previewed in Quick view on the left, a connected health chip and the ftp:// path in the terminal bar.

Every server, previewed

A photograph on an FTP server, a spreadsheet on WebDAV, an archive on S3: Quick view works wherever the bytes come from.

Calendar view of a whole C: drive, 67,982 files: four years of modified dates as a green heat map, one square per day, up to 5,160 files on the busiest.

A whole drive by day

See your changes in a calendar heatmap. Calendar groups by modified, created, EXIF or commit date.

Document chat over 160 scanned PDFs: the question, five visible retrieval calls and an answer that cites the delivery notes it used.

Chat with sources

Optional. Ask the folders you allow a question and see every retrieval call and the files the answer links to. Off until you configure it.

Connections

Flexible cloud and remote file services.

SMB, FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, NFS, S3, Azure Blob, Drime, OneDrive, Dropbox, phones and git:// revisions sit beside your local drives, with the same views, filters, Quick view and viewers. Test a connection before saving: the dialog reports round trip, listing time and whether the server can say how much space is free.

New connection dialog for FTP/FTPS over a dual pane: host, port, user, encryption, initial path, max connections, indexing, and a test result reporting round trip, listing time and that free space is not advertised.
Connect to external FTP/FTPS/SFTP servers and use the files like they were local.
The Transfers window with three copies to an SFTP server: one running with rate and estimated time, one waiting on a name clash offering Overwrite, Skip, Keep both, Stop job and Apply to all beside both file sizes and dates, and one queued.
One transfer queue for remote copies, with the option to queue local copies too: pause a job, and answer a name clash in the row instead of in a dialog that stops the rest.
  • Secrets in Windows Credential ManagerPasswords, access keys and refresh tokens never sit in the plain connection file.
  • Capability-awareEach backend is asked what it supports; copy, rename, delete and free space are enabled accordingly.
  • Recursive usageRead thumbnails in zip-files at a remote FTP-server.
  • AdditionalFree space is shown only when the protocol reports it.
PDF viewer with the Markup toolbar: a red rounded rectangle around a diagram and a yellow highlight over a sentence.
Markup on a research paper: a rounded rectangle and a highlight, saved into the file.

Documents

The PDF stops being a detour.

A PDF-heavy folder used to mean opening files until the right one appeared. Here every PDF shows its first page in the listing, sorts by the year printed inside it and filters by whether it is native, scanned or carries OCR. The viewer reads, the markup tools annotate, redact, edit. The page sidebar reorganises, and each destructive step is confirmed and backed up.

Markdown

Markdown, built in.

Press Space on a Markdown file and it is rendered before you can blink. In the viewer you can read, search and print it. Use editor to edit with preview/inline Markdown. Nothing to install, no preview handler, no browser engine: it all ships inside the executable and it is blazing fast.

Cadri_Commander.md in Cadri Commander's Markdown viewer: a feature list, blockquote, keyboard shortcut table, fenced filter example and download link, with Source, Print, Export PDF and Edit in the toolbar.
Cadri Commander's own README: headings, a quote, a shortcut table and a filter example, with Source, Print and Export PDF a click away.
  • Quick viewRendered in the pane or docked beside the listing. Step to the next file with the folder's filter and sort still applied.
  • ViewerRendered or source, with search and printing through a document paginator. Remote images load only if you allow them.
  • EditorEdit in place with common formatting shortcuts. Task checkboxes toggle with a click and the change is written back to the file.
  • Notes on any fileEvery file can carry its own Markdown description. It is searchable, survives an index rebuild and never touches the original.

Keyboard

Hands on the keyboard.

The classic function-key workflow is on an optional command bar, and everything else has a chord. A searchable shortcut sheet and key hints are built in.

  1. F1Help
  2. F2Rename
  3. F3View
  4. F4Edit
  5. F5Copy
  6. F6Move
  7. F7MakeDir
  8. F8Delete
  9. F9Dual
  • SpaceQuick view of the selection
  • Alt+SpaceDock Quick view
  • Ctrl+DCycle Thumbs, Gallery, Details; with Shift, all eight views
  • Ctrl+1…9Nine hot paths; Ctrl+Shift+n assigns
  • Ctrl+NAnother window over the same index
  • EnterIn the filter box: search the whole index

Optional AI

Index the folders you choose. Then ask them questions.

Cadri Commander indexes the folders you pick and can embed the eligible documents in them, so they become searchable by meaning, and a built-in retrieval engine answers questions from the files it finds. Each AI role, embedding, chat and reranking, is configured on its own: the internal models, a local Ollama server, OpenRouter, Neuralwatt or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint that serves that role. Everything stays off until you switch it on, and you choose which folders AI may read.

  • Semantic searchsem:"termination clause" finds the passages that mean it, not only the files that say it.
  • Chat with sourcesThe built-in RAG engine retrieves from the indexed folder, shows every retrieval call and links the answer back to the files it used. Read the sources; a model can still be wrong.
  • Entity extractionDefine a document year, matter number or customer; the values become columns, facets and filters.
  • MCP serverRun Cadri Commander as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and let your own agent search, read and compare the indexed documents.
Document chat over 160 scanned PDFs: the question, five visible retrieval calls and an answer that cites the delivery notes it used.
Chat with your scanned PDFs. You ask the question, and using a large language model (LLM) it will search your documents and give the answers back.
  • Internal modelsEmbedding and chat models that run on your PC after an optional download. Documents processed by a role set to Internal never leave the machine.
  • Local OllamaPoint Cadri Commander at your Ollama server and use the models it serves.
  • OpenRouter · NeuralwattHosted chat and entity models through your own account and API key. Neuralwatt serves chat; embedding and reranking need another provider.
  • Any OpenAI-compatible endpointConfigure a compatible base URL and key for each role it supports: embedding, chat, reranking or all three.

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