Comment by bobnarizes

Comment by bobnarizes 3 days ago

Building https://floxtop.com, a native Mac app that organizes your files.

It looks inside each file to see what it’s about, then moves it to the right folder for you.

Everything happens on your Mac, so nothing leaves your computer. No clouds, no servers.

It works in 50 languages (including English, German, French, Spanish, Swedish) and with images (OCR and object recognition), PDFs, Microsoft Office, ePubs, text, Markdown, and many other file types.

For messy folders anywhere on the Mac, Floxtop can help.

jklein11 3 days ago

How do you make sure that the folder structure is helpful and it doesn't just shuffle my files around in places I will never find them?

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bobnarizes 2 days ago

Floxtop never creates or changes your folder structure. You decide where files should live by creating categories. A category has two things:
1. A short description of what kind of files belong there
2. A specific folder on your Mac as the destination
When you drop unsorted files into Floxtop, it looks inside each file, understands what it’s about, and compares it with your categories. Instead of picking a single place, Floxtop suggests the five most likely destinations, ordered by confidence.
Nothing happens automatically:
- Files are never moved on their own
- You review the suggestions and decide what gets moved
- If a file doesn’t clearly belong anywhere, it stays untouched
Floxtop helps you decide where things belong — the final action is always yours.

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