async function loadAllGroups(maxGroups = 50) {
	const params = {
		related: 1,
		relations: [
			// TODO: Is this still necessary?
			// don't show motion pictures / live photos, since they are not
			// considered their own item in a gallery sense, and perhaps
			// more importantly, we don't want to have to generate a thumbnail
			// for them (literally no need for a thumbnail of those, just
			// wasted CPU time and storage space)
			{
				"not": true,
				"relation_label": "motion"
			}
		],
		// offset: limit * (currentPageNum()-1), // TODO: figure out how to paginate the timeline
		limit: 2000
	};
	commonFilterSearchParams(params);
	
	const results = await app.SearchItems(params);
	console.log("BATCH PARAMS, RESULTS:", params, results);

	const groups = timelineGroups(results.items);

	return groups;
}































































/*
	This old code would load the timeline in batches so as not to exceed too many groups.
	It did not work well.
*/

// async function loadAllGroups(maxGroups = 50) {
// 	async function loadBatch(params) {
// 		const results = await app.SearchItems(params);
// 		console.log("BATCH PARAMS, RESULTS:", params, results);
// 		return results.items;
// 	}

// 	// TODO: reinstate slicing?
// 	function finished(groups) {
// 		// groups.sort((a, b) => a[0].timestamp > b[0].timestamp ? 1 : -1 );
// 		// // keep last groups (newest items) because we truncate oldest items
// 		// return groups.slice(-(Math.min(groups.length, maxGroups) - groups.length));
// 		return groups;
// 	}



// 	let items = [];
// 	const start = DateTime.now();

// 	do {
// 		const params = timelineFilterParams(items?.[items.length-1]);
// 		const batch = await loadBatch(params);
// 		if (!batch) break;
// 		items = items.concat(batch);
// 		const groups = timelineGroups(items);

// 		if (groups.length > maxGroups || batch?.length < params.limit) {
// 			return finished(groups);
// 		}
// 	} while (-start.diffNow().as('seconds') < 10);

// 	return finished(timelineGroups(items));
// }


// function timelineFilterParams(lastItem) {
// 	const params = {
// 		related: 1,
// 		relations: [
// 			// TODO: Is this still necessary?
// 			// don't show motion pictures / live photos, since they are not
// 			// considered their own item in a gallery sense, and perhaps
// 			// more importantly, we don't want to have to generate a thumbnail
// 			// for them (literally no need for a thumbnail of those, just
// 			// wasted CPU time and storage space)
// 			{
// 				"not": true,
// 				"relation_label": "motion"
// 			}
// 		],
// 		// offset: limit * (currentPageNum()-1), // TODO: figure out how to paginate the timeline
// 		limit: 100
// 	};


// 	commonFilterSearchParams(params);

// 	if (lastItem) {
// 		params.start_timestamp = lastItem?.timestamp;
// 	}

// 	console.log("PARAMS:", params)

// 	return params;
// }









/* This REALLY old code would do some fancy statistics to try to compute clusters/groups. */

// // // median returns the median of array. *NOTE:* array must be sorted!
// // // (TODO: If needed, implement "median of medians" algorithm to get median from unsorted array in O(n) time)
// // function median(array) {
// // 	if (array.length == 0) {
// // 		return 0;
// // 	}
// // 	if (array.length == 1) {
// // 		return array[0];
// // 	}
// // 	if (array.length % 2 == 0) {
// // 		return array[Math.floor(array.length/2)];
// // 	}
// // 	const middex = Math.floor(array.length / 2);
// // 	return (array[middex] + array[middex+1]) / 2;
// // }

// // function standardDeviation(array) {
// // 	if (!array?.length) return 0;
// // 	const n = array.length;
// // 	const mean = array.reduce((a, b) => a + b) / n;
// // 	return Math.sqrt(array.map(x => Math.pow(x - mean, 2)).reduce((a, b) => a + b) / n);
// // }

// // function renderGroup(group, prevGroup) {
// // 	if (!group.length) return;

// // 	const tpl = cloneTemplate('#tpl-tl-item-card');
	
// // 	let base, word;
// // 	if (prevGroup?.length) {
// // 		base = DateTime.fromISO(prevGroup[0].timestamp);
// // 		word = "earlier";
// // 	}
// // 	let relativeTime = DateTime.fromISO(group[0].timestamp).toRelative({
// // 		base: base
// // 	});
// // 	if (relativeTime) {
// // 		// TODO: this only works for English, sigh...
// // 		if (relativeTime.startsWith("in ")) {
// // 			relativeTime = relativeTime.replace("in ", "") + " later";
// // 		}
// // 		$('.list-timeline-time', tpl).innerText = relativeTime;
// // 	}

// // 	const display = itemMiniDisplay(tlz.openRepos[0], group);
	
// // 	$('.list-timeline-icon', tpl).innerHTML = display.icon;
// // 	$('.list-timeline-icon', tpl).classList.add(`bg-${display.iconColor}`);
// // 	$('.list-timeline-content-container', tpl).append(display.element);
// // 	$('#timeline').append(tpl);
// // }