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organize - The file management automation tool
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The new version should bemuch faster and fix a lot of bugs. It also comes witha some new actions, filters and options.

If you encounter any other bugs or problems during the migration, please reach out!

• See the changelog
• Migration guide

Your desktop is a mess? You cannot find anything in your downloads anddocuments? Sorting and renaming all these files by hand is too tedious?Time to automate it once and benefit from it forever.

organize is a command line, open-source alternative to apps like Hazel (macOS)or File Juggler (Windows).

• Sorting and tagging pictures into various folder structures based on EXIF data
• Sorting and renaming PDF invoices based on file content
• Removing incomplete downloads from their ~/Downloads
• Cleaning up their ~/Desktop from unused files
• Freeing up disk space by removing duplicates
• Automating various business processes
• and many more

Some highlights include:

• Safe moving, renaming, copying of files and folders with conflict resolution options.
• Fast duplicate file detection.
• Exif tags extraction.
• Categorization via text extracted from PDF, DOCX and many more.
• Powerful template engine.
• Inline python and shell commands as filters and actions for maximum flexibility.
• Everything can be simulated before touching your files.
• Works on macOS, Windows and Linux.
• Free and open source software.

Only python 3.9+ is needed.Install it via your package manager or frompython.org.

Installation is done via pip. Note that the package name isorganize-tool:

pip install -U organize-tool

This command can also be used to update to the newest version. Now you can runorganize --help to check if the installation was successful.

In your shell, runorganize new and thenorganize edit to edit the configuration:

rules:  -name:"Find PDFs"locations:      -~/Downloadssubfolders:truefilters:      -extension:pdfactions:      -echo:"Found PDF!"

If you have problems editing the configuration you can runorganize show --reveal to reveal the configuration folder in your file manager. You can then edit theconfig.yaml in your favourite editor.

save your config file and run:

organize run

You will see a list of all.pdf files you have in your downloads folder (+ subfolders).For now we only show the textFound PDF! for each file, but this will change soon...(If it showsNothing to do you simply don't have any pdfs in your downloads folder).

Runorganize edit again and add amove-action to your rule:

actions:  -echo:"Found PDF!"  -move:~/Documents/PDFs/

Now runorganize sim to see what would happen without touching your files.

You will see that your pdf-files would be moved over to yourDocuments/PDFs folder.

Congratulations, you just automated your first task. You can now runorganize runwhenever you like and all your pdfs are a bit more organized. It's that easy.

There is so much more. You want to rename / copy files, run custom shell- or python scripts, match names with regular expressions or use placeholder variables? organize has you covered. Have a look at the advanced usage example below!

Here are some examples of simple organization and cleanup rules. Modify to your needs!

Move all invoices, orders or purchase documents into your documents folder:

rules:  -name:"Sort my invoices and receipts"locations:~/Downloadssubfolders:truefilters:      -extension:pdf      -name:contains:            -Invoice            -Order            -Purchasecase_sensitive:falseactions:      -move:~/Documents/Shopping/

Recursively delete all empty directories:

rules:  -name:"Recursively delete all empty directories"locations:      -path:~/Downloadstargets:dirssubfolders:truefilters:      -emptyactions:      -delete

You'll find many more examples in thefull documentation.

organize - The file management automation tool.Usage:  organize run   [options] [<config>]  organize sim   [options] [<config>]  organize new   [<config>]  organize edit  [<config>]  organize check [<config>]  organize debug [<config>]  organize show  [--path|--reveal] [<config>]  organize list  organize docs  organize --version  organize --helpCommands:  run        Organize your files.  sim        Simulate organizing your files.  new        Creates a new config.  edit       Edit the config file with$EDITOR.  check      Check whether the config file is valid.  debug      Shows the raw config parsing steps.  show       Print the config to stdout.               Use --reveal to reveal the file in your file manager               Use --path to show the path to the file  list       Lists config files found in the default locations.  docs       Open the documentation.Options:  <config>                        A config name or path to a config file  -W --working-dir <dir>          The working directory  -F --format (default|jsonl)     The output format [Default: default]  -T --tags <tags>                Tags to run (eg. "initial,release")  -S --skip-tags <tags>           Tags to skip  -h --help                       Show this help page.

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