diff --git a/artiq/browser/datasets.py b/artiq/browser/datasets.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8059fd599
--- /dev/null
+++ b/artiq/browser/datasets.py
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+from PyQt5 import QtCore, QtWidgets
+
+from artiq.tools import short_format
+from artiq.gui.tools import LayoutWidget
+from artiq.gui.models import DictSyncTreeSepModel
+
+# reduced read-only version of artiq.gui.datasets
+
+
+class Model(DictSyncTreeSepModel):
+    def __init__(self,  init):
+        DictSyncTreeSepModel.__init__(self, ".", ["Dataset", "Value"], init)
+
+    def convert(self, k, v, column):
+        return short_format(v[1])
+
+
+class DatasetsDock(QtWidgets.QDockWidget):
+    def __init__(self, datasets_sub):
+        QtWidgets.QDockWidget.__init__(self, "Datasets")
+        self.setObjectName("Datasets")
+        self.setFeatures(QtWidgets.QDockWidget.DockWidgetMovable |
+                         QtWidgets.QDockWidget.DockWidgetFloatable)
+
+        grid = LayoutWidget()
+        self.setWidget(grid)
+
+        self.search = QtWidgets.QLineEdit()
+        self.search.setPlaceholderText("search...")
+        self.search.editingFinished.connect(self._search_datasets)
+        grid.addWidget(self.search, 0, 0)
+
+        self.table = QtWidgets.QTreeView()
+        self.table.setSelectionBehavior(QtWidgets.QAbstractItemView.SelectRows)
+        self.table.setSelectionMode(
+            QtWidgets.QAbstractItemView.SingleSelection)
+        grid.addWidget(self.table, 1, 0)
+
+        self.table_model = Model(dict())
+        datasets_sub.add_setmodel_callback(self.set_model)
+
+    def _search_datasets(self):
+        if hasattr(self, "table_model_filter"):
+            self.table_model_filter.setFilterFixedString(
+                self.search.displayText())
+
+    def set_model(self, model):
+        self.table_model = model
+        self.table_model_filter = QtCore.QSortFilterProxyModel()
+        self.table_model_filter.setSourceModel(self.table_model)
+        self.table.setModel(self.table_model_filter)
+
+    def save_state(self):
+        return bytes(self.table.header().saveState())
+
+    def restore_state(self, state):
+        self.table.header().restoreState(QtCore.QByteArray(state))
diff --git a/artiq/gui/results.py b/artiq/browser/results.py
similarity index 95%
rename from artiq/gui/results.py
rename to artiq/browser/results.py
index a832093a0..e76d12106 100644
--- a/artiq/gui/results.py
+++ b/artiq/browser/results.py
@@ -54,8 +54,9 @@ class ResultsBrowser(QtWidgets.QSplitter):
         try:
             with h5py.File(path, "r") as f:
                 rd = {}
-                for k in f: #["datasets"]:
-                    rd[k] = False, f[k].value
+                group = f["datasets"]
+                for k in group:
+                    rd[k] = True, group[k].value
                 self.datasets.init(rd)
         except:
             pass
diff --git a/artiq/frontend/artiq_browser.py b/artiq/frontend/artiq_browser.py
index 70188781a..e1de979bd 100755
--- a/artiq/frontend/artiq_browser.py
+++ b/artiq/frontend/artiq_browser.py
@@ -10,11 +10,12 @@ from quamash import QEventLoop
 
 from artiq import __artiq_dir__ as artiq_dir
 from artiq.tools import verbosity_args, init_logger, atexit_register_coroutine
-from artiq.gui import state, results, datasets, applets, models
+from artiq.gui import state, applets, models
+from artiq.browser import datasets, results
 
 
 def get_argparser():
-    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="ARTIQ results browser")
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="ARTIQ Browser")
     parser.add_argument(
         "--db-file", default="artiq_browser.pyon",
         help="database file for local browser settings")
@@ -29,7 +30,7 @@ class MainWindow(QtWidgets.QMainWindow):
 
         icon = QtGui.QIcon(os.path.join(artiq_dir, "gui", "logo.svg"))
         self.setWindowIcon(icon)
-        self.setWindowTitle("ARTIQ - Browser")
+        self.setWindowTitle("ARTIQ Browser")
 
         qfm = QtGui.QFontMetrics(self.font())
         self.resize(140*qfm.averageCharWidth(), 38*qfm.lineSpacing())
@@ -94,8 +95,7 @@ def main():
     atexit_register_coroutine(d_applets.stop)
     smgr.register(d_applets)
 
-    d_datasets = datasets.DatasetsDock(datasets_sub,
-                                       None)  # TODO: datsets_ctl.delete()
+    d_datasets = datasets.DatasetsDock(datasets_sub)
     smgr.register(d_datasets)
 
     main_window.setCentralWidget(d_results)