Automator - The Best Way to Automatically Organize Your Mac

Hey people, in this video we're going over how you can organize your mac with Automator. Using folder actions in automator, we can automatically organize files into specific folders based on the rules we set.

This can be super helpful because once you set the rules, your mac will automatically organize files without you touching a thing.

And Automator is a native Mac program that is free to use!

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro
1:13 - Automator Overview
2:33 - Folder Actions
2:50 - Designate Folder
4:05 - Add an Action
5:00 - Using Rules
8:20 - Automator in Action
9:55 - Outro

#automator #organize #mac

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[JakeFishmanTech]

Unfortunately, no matter how hard you try...you can't Kamehameha the files off your desktop.

[Francisco_Otero]

Automator is one of those programs you dont know anything about but should. Thanks for shedding a light!

[PaLammy]

I have a lot of photos from the past 10 years on an external HDD. Not catalogued...
I want to catalogue them in folders by year and therein by month....
Can't manage to move the photos with their original name in an automator sorting command into a new folder that moves the photos by year/month into that new directory/folder.
Is that actually possible with automator or is that asking too much?

[msvelasquez]

"it is going be.. I just started " lmao thanks for this video!

[rcwilli]

whopapapapapa :D :D :D on a serious note: What would be the difference to the Hazel tool? Thanks!

[JordanDavid]

"Automator is the best, and here's why! Uh.. I don't know how to use it but it looks high tech."

[charlesmagno]

is there any way to use Google chrome instead of Safari in AUtomator? chrome is my preferrred and bookmarks are there already

[taisalcantara]

Hi, great video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge! How can delete a quick action automator created? Could you help, please :)

[izumimiyamura]

Heyy, Jake I was trying to use the automator like you did but it keeps failing. :{ am I supposed to press the run button at the top? it keeps saying "2 warnings" at the bottom in the "Log" but doesn't do anything outside the automator... is there a way to fix this?😅😭

[whoismattkohn]

“Ur ish isn’t even effffin organized !” 😂😂😂😂😂

[mercurynfo]

How do you delete an automator file in Apple silicon with BigSur?

[growtlab]

Can we sell the app or workflow that we created?

[andreirachko]

Pro tip: watch this video at 1.25% speed

[lexjohnson]

I keep getting the error message:
"The action 'Move Finder Items' was not supplied with the required data."