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A friend has sent you a link to the following NoodleMac article: http://noodlemac.com/index.php/mac/articles/87/ Our Macs keep us organized, keep us connected, and don’t ask much in return. Every Mac could use a little Hazel running around inside, keeping your Mac tidy and organized. That’s what a personal digital housekeeper for your Mac can do. Keep house. Housecleaning Amazingly, and despite our best efforts to organize our Macs, housecleaning is in order. OS X does some housekeeping late, late at night. Unless our Macs are turned off. Then, nothing gets done. Hazel is your Mac’s personal housekeeper, a utility that performs all kinds of chores to make your Mac run better, stay organized longer. Sometimes Newton’s Law of Inertia is just as applicable to the digital world as to the physical. All too often our files sit around never to be filed. Downloads and other sundry files pile up never to leave. Fortunately, an uncluttered desktop can be a reality. Quite true. Our desks get cluttered. So does our Mac’s Desktop, not to mention the catch-all Documents folder. What Hazel does is clean and organize in ways you didn’t know you needed. Preferences Hazel starts life on your Mac as Preference Pane. Choices are both simple and complex, depending on what you want Hazel to do. Hazel watches whatever folders you tell it to, automatically organizing your files according to the rules you create. Have Hazel move files around based on name, date, type, what site/email address it came from (Safari and Mail only) and much more. Putting files where they belong is just the start (click any image for a pop up, close up view).