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Include files and folders that are labeled in the Finder - If this option is enabled, files and folders that have a label in the Finder will be included in a tidy. Show tidied folder in the Finder - Once the tidy is finished, the destination folder will be opened and shown in the Finder. This can be helpful if you have the folders open in the Finder and would like to see the files move. Dear reader, this is just to let you know that as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.Hide all applications before running the tidy - This will hide every running application so the Finder is visible right before the tidy is run.

Reservations? Price, certainly - $9.99 seems a lot of cash for what the app does, but if you badly want a clean Mac desktop, this product will get you there. However, in comparison with creating an Automator script, Declutter is easy to use and does what it claims it does.Īnother alternative is Hazel, which is an incredibly powerful and full-featured tool for all kinds of file management – meaning that if all you want to do is keep a check on an untidy desktop, then Hazel’s the equivalent of bringing a haulage truck to carry a bag of shopping. It’s also hard to ignore that what the application does for you could also be achieved by creating your own Automator scripts. To some extent, Declutter only does what you should be doing already.

When you create a rule for a folder it should never overlap another rule available for another folder – that means you can’t save JPEGs into two separate locations, for example.

Click on save to add the folder to the app and desktop.

File extension filter can have multiple values separated by comma without any space. This rule will help to move all files with this extension to the folder.

Enter the file extension filter for the app.

This rule will help to move all files with this name to the folder.

Enter the file name filter for the app.

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Enter the folder name, select a colour code and icon for the folder.

Click on the + button in the bottom bar of the app.

These are the instructions provided by the developers:

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How to create a new smart folder in Clutter

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There’s also a Plus icon you tap to create a new folder. (I see this app as like a Roomba for Mac, though at $0, it’s a whole lot cheaper than the thousand-buck smart vacuum cleaner).ĭown below, you tap the small clock icon to set the time at which you want to declutter your desktop and a slider bar icon to access application settings (start app at login and hotkeys). That’s useful, and the fact that you can choose when the application sweeps up your Desktop (immediately, daily, after a set period of time – you decide) means you can continue to work in the way that’s familiar to you (messily), while remaining confident that everything will get cleaned up when you’re done.

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That means all your documents will end up in the Documents folder, while images and movie assets saved to your Desktop end up held in the application’s Pictures and Videos folders. It basically monitors your Desktop and transfers all the different items you save there to its own smart folders. Here it is, in three tidy parts: What is Declutter?ĭeclutter isn’t the world’s most complex application. However, the developers only recently launched Declutter, so I thought it was worth a short review. I have been intending to include it in a short round-up of essential Mac utilities at Computerworld, but haven’t managed to get round to writing that yet. For the last few weeks I’ve been using MacAppStudio’s Declutter utility.