It seems to be less of a "file organizer" than it is a "document organizer" since it only supports plain text and PDF files.

Personally, I don't think I have that many PDF and text files that organizing them manually would be a pain. The organization logic also is a miss for me, since I don't really organize my documents in buckets like "Legal & Contracts", but rather I have folders like "Car" (for my car's service records, bill of sale, owner's manual, etc.) and "Mortgage" (mortgage quotes, contracts, etc) that's housed under "Apartment".

Doesn't help that most of these documents are not in English.

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bobnarizes 7 days ago | parent [-]

You’re right — at the moment it’s limited to text and PDFs, but this is just the starting point. Support for more file types, more languages, and full customization (so you can define your own categories, folder names, and destinations) will be rolled out next.

I’d love to learn from your use case: what are the top 5 file types you find yourself storing most often on your Mac?

Thanks for the feedback!

	▲	trinsic2 7 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I think you are missing an opportunity here to make this a note taking only tool. People are talking about searching word documents (Binary Files) but its going to be a pain in the ass to support every file type and file types that don't have good portability. IMHO, the future is Knowledge Management and for that you really need text like like formats like markdown. You should look into porting your app into a plug-in like feature for a knowledge management tool like Obsidian. That is the kind of audience that is going to latch on to this idea quicker than anyone else. Im thinking you will get clearer feedback from that audience. Of course I am biased since I am an Obsidian user. I dont use word processing apps at all. All my writing is done in Markdown applications and final documents are either ported to PDF or HTML. I had a similar idea about organizing files but I dont have programming skills so Im glad you are working on something like this. My idea, which I do not mind that you steal (Probably someone already thought about this) is figuring out a way to isolate information into categories based on a current selected feeling of the day, or a project you plan on working on based on some type of schedule. It would help with isolating personal project from work project data that can cause distractions. Im not a mac user but I watched the video and I can see what its doing. It's pretty impressive. It would be cool if we (Obsidian) users had something like this to link ideas together. As it stands right now, I think you have to do all of the linking manually. A lot of people in the Obsidian community use the Zettelkasten Method of organizing information and the linking feature that is part of Obsidian is naturally good at that.
	▲	Terretta 4 days ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		> What are the top 5 file types you find yourself storing most often on your Mac? At least extend .txt to also support .md since that's the .txt “everyone” here uses?
	▲	alchemist1e9 7 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		ripgrep-all and recoll come to mind as projects that might be helpful to look at for supporting additional file types. Fallinorg is great and something I’ve also thought about quite a bit. Local LLMs probably could enable lots of organizational workflows. I can’t wait to try what you have. Thanks for sharing and working on this problem.