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Hazel is probably the greatest never-think-about-it application for the Mac I know of. She doesn’t get talked about enough, so that’s what this post is: me talking about her. . . I mean it.

It's also a selfish attempt at learning more about my favorite Mac maid… ‘cause I get the feeling I’m still not using her—it. . . it, dammit—enough. Let me know how you use Hazel in the comments.

How I use Hazel… mostly

Download folder management:

Desktop management:

  • Move screenshots with a -pe suffix to a folder2
  • Delete screenshots (i.e. files containing screen shot in the name) that are older than one day

Random:


  1. If you regularly download any kind of file and manually move it to another folder, you should go buy Hazel now. I’m not joking. End that madness.

  2. I usually put -pe on the end of screenshots that I use in posts here. I like working off of my Desktop when I’m cropping and annotating screenshots. If a -pe screenshot sits on my Desktop more than 30 minutes, Hazel puts it in a folder for me so I can use it later.