82 Macworld • August 2019FEATURE
Hazel lets you set rules to
move files around your Macaround £26, from fave.co/2S38PcZ) to manage
my files for me. Hazel works by watching folders
on your Mac and making changes to files based on
a series of rules. For instance, I’ve got a rule that
looks at the folder where I save all my tech writing,
and after a few weeks, moves unmodified stories
to an archive folder. Another rule takes old podcast
files and compresses them so they take up less
space. And yet another looks at a shared Dropbox
folder used to pass audio files back and forth and
deletes any of them older than a couple of weeks.
I used to do all of that file maintenance by hand,
but with Hazel I don’t have to anymore. If you find
yourself going through the mental gymnastics of
deciding which files need to go into which places,