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drefile: an automatic, chronological file organizer

Every few minutes drefile copies all files on your Desktop to a folder such as ~/Documents/2009-06-June/26-Friday, prepending a timestamp (like 20090626.1310) to the filename. Use:

1. Put files on your Desktop, and in a few minutes they will be “drefiled”
2. Use the “Today” alias on your Desktop to go to today’s folder
3. Type dday to go to today’s directory
4. Type dmonth to go to this month’s directory
5. Type drefile file to manually timestamp + move a file\

I’m so excited Luke finally released this because I’ve wanted to use it for a while (but am too lazy to write it).

I primarily work on two separate machines, so if filing objects I care about on just one computer is a challenge, keeping the files accessible and organized between the two is a particular headache. Lately, I’ve been using Dropbox as a simple solution to keeping preference & data files in sync between my computers. This is really handy for apps like The Hit List, a really nice to do app, that have a small local data store. I save the Hit List library file to my Dropbox, and any changes I make to my To Do lists on one computer are updated the next time I open the app on the other.

drefile + Dropbox are a nice combo. Specify the drefile storage directory to be your Dropbox, and now all everything you care enough about to save is synced between all your computers, organized by date. Archival serenity!