organize-tool mit Homebrew, apt installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• organize

Projektgeschichte

The tfeldmann/organize repository was created on 2017-09-20, and the project reached a documented v1.0 release on 2018-03-13. The package is published to PyPI as organize-tool and installed as the organize executable.

The README frames organize as an open-source command-line alternative to desktop automation apps such as Hazel on macOS and File Juggler on Windows. Its documentation evolved into a rule-based system with locations, filters, actions, placeholders, duplicate detection, EXIF extraction, text extraction, and templating.

The changelog records a v2.0.0 release on 2022-02-07 and a v3.0.0 release on 2024-01-05. The README says v3 was designed to be much faster, fix many bugs, and add actions, filters, and options.

Adoptionsgeschichte

organize has broad hobbyist and productivity-tool adoption for a file automation CLI: the GitHub repository has thousands of stars, PyPI distribution, Read the Docs documentation, Homebrew packaging as organize-tool, and packaging signals in Linux distributions.

Its adoption is driven less by a server ecosystem and more by repeatable personal and business file workflows: organizing Downloads and Desktop folders, sorting photos by EXIF data, renaming invoices by document content, removing incomplete downloads, deleting duplicates, and automating document-handling processes.

Wie es verwendet wird

A normal workflow begins with organize new or organize edit to create a YAML config, organize sim to preview changes, and organize run to execute the rules. The docs emphasize simulation as a safety feature before moving, deleting, or renaming files.

Rules combine locations, targets, filters, and actions. This makes the package useful for small automations that would otherwise become one-off shell scripts, Finder/Explorer drag-and-drop work, or proprietary desktop automation rules.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

organize is interesting in package metadata because the import/project identity and package-manager identity differ: the Homebrew formula is organize-tool, the PyPI package is organize-tool, and the installed command is organize.

It also shows how a desktop-style automation idea can live comfortably as a cross-platform CLI: Python package, Homebrew formula, Read the Docs site, GitHub Pages changelog, and examples written as YAML rather than GUI workflows.

Zeitleiste

• 2017-09-20: tfeldmann/organize repository created on GitHub.
• 2018-03-13: changelog documents v1.0.
• 2022-02-07: changelog documents v2.0.0.
• 2024-01-05: changelog documents v3.0.0.

Related projects

• The README compares organize with Hazel and File Juggler. Adjacent package concepts include rule engines, duplicate-file finders, EXIF metadata tooling, document text extraction, shell automation, and cross-platform filesystem cleanup utilities.

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/tfeldmann/organize
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/organize-tool
• https://github.com/tfeldmann/organize
• https://organize.readthedocs.io/
• https://pypi.org/project/organize-tool/
• https://tfeldmann.github.io/organize/changelog/