This makes Hazel much more powerful than I thought! It's a 'dropzone' for automation!

I've been using Hazel for a few years now, it's great! The main tasks are, 1. Monitor my Downloads folder for my PDF Bank Statements - Hazel can scan inside the PDF to pick up the Account Number & Date, then rename it from that Date and file it away to correct folder/subfolder. 2. Organise my Photos from Dropbox - Dropbox already renames my uploaded photos with Date/Time taken. Hazel monitors the Camera Uploads folder, then moves the files to my Main Photos folder and sorts them into Year/Month Sub-folders. Photo management is now fully automated 😎. The other options also available is monitoring of the Trash folder to keep it clean and App Sweep which can offer to uninstall applications and all their support files.

I use Hazel for paperless office sorting of bills etc. I think one of its most powerful features is to be able to read inside native PDFs so it can auto-sort your downloaded bills into folders without renaming them. Love this program and thanks , I got a few new ideas from this video!

Such a great idea! This sounds like a fantastic tool for addressing daily, repetitive tasks. I bet you could get really creative with it, too.

I've been using Hazel for years. I don't process a lot of folders, but it's worth every bit of the money just for App Sweep. When enabled (in its Trash tab), when you throw an application away, it offers to also throw away the application's support files (deep in your system's library folders, etc.).

I use Hazel. I made a folder called “Move to Evernote” ... when I add any file to it, it will make a new note on Evernote and drop that file in it, and then it moves the file to trash 😉

My favorite kind of videos I like to watch. It felt like I was watching dotto's data cafe Thank You!

I bought Filejuggler a couple of weeks ago. Love it, still getting to grips with what it can do. Thanks for the video Steve

Keyboard Maestro (version 9) is also a great tool

Thanks for the review. Looks useful 🙏

Very educational video, thanks Steve !

My Favourite tools is Alfred and keyboard maestro

I like autohotkey. You can do pretty much anything you want to do

Than you Steve Great video I have been thinkng about this for a while

Great video!! Thank you Steve

For Windows, I like WinAutomation.

I love this! I want to incorporate it into my work process for sure!

I’d expand on that rule. As you’ve backed up the file - why not send it to Trash as well? Or have a separate rule, for that folder that sends files >1 or 2 days old to Trash. Then I have a rule, that watches my Trash folder and deletes anything >30 days old. Should be plenty of time to recover the file of there’s a disaster.

You said you drag it to Dropbox. I thought you switched to Sync to be safer to store. Just wondered.. : )

Can't this be accomplished with Windows Task Scheduler?

I love you so much 😘

Do you use Alfred?

How much to write two lines of code, archive and to copy. ZERO. you can write that code, just google.

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