organize

A file management automation tool.

Current Status

This is in really early development. Please come back later!

Background

The Python organize is a file management automation tool.

From their docs:

Your desktop is a mess? You cannot find anything in your downloads and documents? Sorting and renaming all these files by hand is too tedious? Time to automate it once and benefit from it forever. organize is a command line, open-source alternative to apps like Hazel (macOS) or File Juggler (Windows).

This is a Rust implementation of the same concept.

Example

• Filter files, which file stem ends with go, recursive, maximum 2 levels deep:

  organize filter --recursive --max-depth 2 name --locations "C:\organize\" --targets files --ends-with "go"

• Filter files in two locations, which extensions match rs or toml, recursive, maximum 2 levels deep

  organize filter --recursive --max-depth 2 extension --locations C:\organize --locations D:\folders --targets files --exts rs --exts toml

• Filter files and folders, which are empty (0 bytes or no files in directory), recursive, maximum 4 levels deep, ignore git in path names

  organize filter --recursive --max-depth 4 empty --locations "C:\Users\dailyuse\dev-src\organize\" --targets both --ignore-path git

• Filter files and folders, which are empty (0 bytes or no files in directory), recursive, maximum 4 levels deep, ignore git only in file names

  organize filter --recursive --max-depth 4 empty --locations "C:\Users\dailyuse\dev-src\organize\" --targets both --ignore-name git

Media

Be aware: This is WIP. Not all functionality is implemented, (yet).

Main

Filters

Actions

Goals

For now the first goal for this Rust version of organize is to have feature parity with its Python equivalent.

BUT: I want to take another approach on tackling the problem. It is also relatively complicated to map all the stuff within a config file, because we are bound to the syntax of yaml/json/toml/ron.

Maybe this is exactly the problem to solve!

Basically you want to have a configuration file, which replaces a mini scripting language. With predefined filters and actions that are applied to the items that the filter spits out.

Basically almost everything in the configuration files are parameters for functions/methods.

This makes everything more complicated.

1. What if we implement rusty organize in a way, that we can call organize filter extension --ext "exe, msi, apk" --path {} and it spits out all the paths that match this precoded filter? This way we can already utilize it easily within shell scripts.

2. On the second implementation stage, we can embed a scripting engine like rhai, where we expose some functionality of rusty organize as functions and register them with the rhai engine.

3. Instead of pressing everything in a complicated configuration file syntax, we can utilize a scripting language and boil it down to its minimum syntax.

That being said, a big factor for the Rust reiteration for me is that I like Rust. I want to reimplement organize's approach in a language that has better error handling, and makes it easier to maintain software. That is fast and at the same time makes development less error prone.

I'm the first user of the Rust implementation, and will be going to use it with my private files. Thus an important goal for me is stability.

License

AGPL-3.0-or-later; see LICENSE.