We’re inveterate downloaders here - it comes with what we do. Documents are read, software is tried, invoices are received (often for the just-mentioned software). All of this creates a pretty extensive clutter in our download folder. And there’s more than that. We’re creating documents almost as quickly. All of this leads to several heaps of stuff that really need some organisation.

Don’t get us wrong - we often do just fine with Quick Look for identification, or Spotlight to find things, but it’s always good to be able to find something manually. Which still means a well-organised file system.

This is where Hazel, from Noodlesoft, comes in. It automatically performs actions of your choice to items in folders you specify. For example, things appearing in my downloads folder are automatically sorted into disk images and zips, pdfs, and other. Videos and music are automatically moved into the correct directories.

This program saves me endless rummaging around on my disk to find where I’ve put stuff, and I can’t recommend it highly enough. Well worth the $24.95 registration fee.

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