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Friday filing: five months of desktop and downloads sorted without one wrong folder

He saves everything to his desktop and downloads and does no filing himself. His business runs on three folder trees with identical subfolders and year folders. Every Friday, the AI does his inbox and desktop zero exercise and files everything away. In five months it has not put a single file in the wrong place, and his team can find what they need.

How it works

  1. Week's files land on desktop and downloads
  2. On Friday the AI sorts each file into the folder tree
  3. Team finds files by the shared structure

Why it’s worth knowing

Five months with zero misfilings is a stronger claim than the task sounds: filing is easy until the folder tree has three areas, ten subfolders and years.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on reddit.com. See the original ↗

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