(Disclaimer: I don't work at Hazel, know anyone who does, or have any incentive to say nice stuff about them-it's just one of these really useful apps.)Īlso, FYI, Hazel is pay-once: no scummy subware pricing or anything like that.Well, some triggers from sensors. Saves me a lot of mucking about saving and formatting stuff. The setup I have right now is that I can save certain regularly created types of files to my desktop and Hazel does the rest. (This is for a project I'm doing where I upload sketches to my blog all I need to do is save a screenshot to my desktop, and Hazel takes care of the rest.)ĭepends on your needs, but Hazel is one of the best apps I've found for automated file management. checks the desktop for any image files with specific filenames, and runs an Automator workflow on them that resizes them, renames them, converts them to JPG, and uploads them to a remote server. checks the desktop for any text files that begin with "notes" (or "project ideas", "journal", and a couple of other things) and moves them to their respective folders, also organized chronologically. automatically unpacks downloaded zip files, and moves any fonts I download into a Fonts folder keeps my desktop clean by moving all files that are more than a day old into a "desktop_archive" folder, which is organized into month and year folders: /2019/09, 2019/10, etc. Here's a few things I'm doing with Hazel: Hazel does one specific thing, but it does it really well: it watches a specific folder for files that match criteria you specify, and it does something to them: moves them, copies them, renames them, even passes them to a script (AppleScript or Javascript) or Automator workflow. I've been using it for years, and I strongly recomend it. One of the best non-Apple-and, seemingly, least well-known-Mac automation tools is called Hazel. Between the two, there's very little you can't automate on Mac, although both have counter-intuitive idiosyncrasies that can be frustrating. AppleScript is Apple's attempt at natural-language scripting. Automator is the more user-friendly of the two provides a visual workflow interface for chaining together tasks and capabilities. Automator and AppleScript are the top two automation tools on macOS.
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