Can AI Really Fix My Messy Desktop? Here Is What Happened

Many of us, including me, have a hard time organizing the massive amount of data on the computer, whether it is contracts, invoices, receipts, tax documents, medical files, project notes, screenshots, or random downloads.

At the same time, we use AI for all sorts of things, for document understanding, writing, coding, and much more. But can AI also help with the tedious task of organizing files, whether it is that messy desktop folder, the Downloads folder, or in the best case, everything?

There are tools that can help with that like Sparkle.

But if you are like me, concerned with data privacy and you want full control, you might have a look into another awesome open source tool that does just that: organize files using AI.

https://github.com/hyperfield/ai-file-sorter

In this post I will introduce you to this tool with a bunch of real files and see how I use this tool with two super simple steps to organize using AI. We will also analyze the result and talk about further improvements and limitations.