“Keep your files organized”

Sometimes Newton's Law of Inertia is just as applicable to the digital world as to the physical. All too often our files sit around never to be filed. Downloads and other sundry files pile up never to leave. Fortunately, an uncluttered desktop can be a reality.

Meet Hazel, your personal housekeeper.

Hazel works on whatever folders you tell it to, automatically organizing your files according to the rules you create. It features a rule interface similar to that of Apple Mail so you should feel right at home. Have Hazel move files around based on name, date, what site/email address it came from (Safari and Mail only) and much more. Keep your downloads off the desktop and put them where they need to be.

Hazel can open, archive, set color labels and add Spotlight comments. And in Hazel 2, you can now have Hazel rename your files or sort them into subfolders based on name, date or whatever combination of attributes you choose. Hazel 2 gives you the ability to create even more powerful workflows than ever before.

Languages:

English

Recent changes in Hazel:

Popups for selecting files in the rule interface now have tool tips showing the full paths of the files
Fixed instructional text in the AppleScript and shellscript editors being editable
Deleting your license brings up a warning alert now
Possible fix for permissions error when upgrading. Won't be able to tell if this works until the next update (it depends on the code of the version updated from, not the version being updated to)
Fixed iTunes importing with iTunes 7.7
App Sweep improved. Should catch a couple more file types and also should be a bit faster
Fixed "double free" error in the helper process
Plugged a couple memory leaks