Organise my entire computer — 9,412 files, years of mess
A non-developer gave the AI his whole home folder with one rule — look first, touch nothing until he said yes. It inventoried 9,412 files, found the chaos concentrated in 312 files across his desktop, Documents and a forgotten 'Misc' folder, and sorted them into six folders named the way he talks (Letters, Money, House, Photos, Travel, Not Sure), renaming files so they can be read without opening them and deleting duplicates only with permission; finding one photo went from 23 minutes to 4 seconds.
1 hoursaved a week
How it works
- Give the AI the home folder and instruct it to look at everything and move nothing yet
- Review its inventory: 9,412 files, most fine, 312 problem files in three places
- Agree six folders named in his own words, with an honest 'Not Sure' folder for anything it cannot place
- Approve the plan file by file
- Have it rename files date-first so the name says what the file is
- Delete the duplicate copies only where he said they could go
- Repeat weekly on Fridays with whatever piled up, about a minute each time
Why it’s worth knowing
The winning folder was 'Not Sure' — an agent honest enough to pile what it couldn't place instead of guessing, across 9,412 of his real files.
Where it’s from
Summarized from a public post on medium.com. See the original ↗