> Over time, cleaning up and finding the right file became a pain.

Alternative solution: treat your downloads folder as ephemeral and delete everything every few weeks.

I feel like we’re entering an age where there is going to be increasingly more data in every day lives. (Just think about every chat in your ChatGPT account)

I guess one solution is to make everything searchable and try to organize everything. Or start treating things as ephemeral.

There’s probably no right answer. E.g. the difference between people who like having 50+ tabs open in Chrome, and needing features to organize and search tabs, versus people who treat tabs as ephemeral and short lived. I’m in the latter camp, but maybe just a matter of personal preference.

Has anyone coined the term “digital hoarding” yet? :)

> Alternative solution: treat your downloads folder as ephemeral and delete everything every few weeks.

Hazel[0] works well for this, but automatic download folder cleanup feels a lot like it should be a stock Finder feature.

[0]: https://www.noodlesoft.com