Folder tidy vs hazel windows#
It's always bugged me that iTunes doesn't have a 'monitor folder' setting like Windows Media Player used to. Probably the most useful function of Hazel for me, though, is the Import to iTunes rule. This is handy if, like me, you rarely remember to do it.
You can also set Hazel to empty your Trash regularly, and according to specific rules. You can also make Hazel create subfolders following a specific naming pattern. I assume this means that you could set it so that documents downloaded from Site X would be sent to a particular folder in your Documents, and documents from Site Y to another. (You can get more specific than this I also just set up a rule to move any Address Book Backups, if they haven't been opened in the last day, to an Address Book Backups folder in my Documents.)Īlso, on looking through the Hazel prefs, I see you can create rules based on Source URL. For instance, I have it set so that any music files get send to Music, images to Pictures, and documents to. I have a folder called Organisatron on my desktop - yes, I am a complete dork.* I set Hazel rules on this folder, and then whenever I want to clear the desktop off, I can drag and drop stuff from the desktop into this folder and Hazel sends it whizzing off to where it needs to go.
Folder tidy vs hazel update#
I use Hazel - I got it free in the Mac Update Promo bundle not long ago. I made a comment in this previous question that explains my own use of Hazel. Posted by SpecialK at 1:54 PM on July 31, 2008 Basically, Hazel is all the things you hated about your mother or nanny, which is I guess why they gave it a woman's name. I haven't bought it (mostly because I like clutter in my creative space) but if I did, I'd have it bring up that I haven't done anything with certain PDFs or images in a week, I'd have it file the omnioutliner files with their projects in my documents folder by matching keywords, and I'd have it keep an eye on how many stickies I've got floating around and ask me if I really need all that many. Hazel is designed to be a maid that will clean according to your rules.
And that's not even counting the little folded up stickies I have everywhere. I have about twenty screencaptures named nothing but 'Picture #.png", a dozen or so PDFs that I downloaded and read and forgot to put away, a couple of text files that are works-in-progress for blog entries, and a whole mess of OmniOutliner files that are my attempts to get organized. In my case, my desktop is littered with files. And I'm not talking about cruft like registry cleaning on Windows, I'm talking creative cruft - the equivalent of the little pile of dust and pieces that ends up in the corners of every creative craftsman's workshop. Hazel exists to kind of automate the cleanup of cruft that happens on people's OSX computers.
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