Enter the file name filter for the app.

Enter the folder name, select a colour code and icon for the folder.

Click on the + button in the bottom bar of the app.

These are the instructions provided by the developers: How to create a new smart folder in Clutter There’s also a Plus icon you tap to create a new folder. (I see this app as like a Roomba for Mac, though at $0, it’s a whole lot cheaper than the thousand-buck smart vacuum cleaner).ĭown below, you tap the small clock icon to set the time at which you want to declutter your desktop and a slider bar icon to access application settings (start app at login and hotkeys). That’s useful, and the fact that you can choose when the application sweeps up your Desktop (immediately, daily, after a set period of time – you decide) means you can continue to work in the way that’s familiar to you (messily), while remaining confident that everything will get cleaned up when you’re done. That means all your documents will end up in the Documents folder, while images and movie assets saved to your Desktop end up held in the application’s Pictures and Videos folders.

It basically monitors your Desktop and transfers all the different items you save there to its own smart folders.

Here it is, in three tidy parts: What is Declutter?ĭeclutter isn’t the world’s most complex application. However, the developers only recently launched Declutter, so I thought it was worth a short review.

I have been intending to include it in a short round-up of essential Mac utilities at Computerworld, but haven’t managed to get round to writing that yet. For the last few weeks I’ve been using MacAppStudio’s Declutter utility.

Declutter mac app