I’ve been using Hazel since I learned about it the week of WWDC. Hazel introduces itself as

Hazel is your personal housekeeper. Set up rules for any folder that could use some organizing and cleaning. Hazel does its work automatically and quietly in the background letting you focus on the your real tasks.

I have Hazel doing the following things:

1. Automatically empty my trash after the items have dwelled in there for a week.
2. Color new downloads blue (I do this for downloads that have existed for < 4 hours)
3. Delete downloads after 4 days
4. Color downloads that will be deleted in the next 24 hours red
5. Color recently worked on projects green (anything in the past two days)

The last one (color projects) is surprisingly helpful. I have a ~/projects directory where everything goes. Coloring the projects I’ve worked with in the past two days makes locating them a lot easier. Plus it’s fun to see what I’ve been doing.

Hazel is $16 and comes with a 14 day trial.

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