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Automatic tidying

EXPLAINED Automate your Mac’s clean-up routine

A INSTALL HAZEL

Hazel ($32, noodlesoft.com) is an app that can automate your ongoing maintenance, using rules you set up. It monitors folders for you and performs specified actions.

B START DEFINING YOUR RULES

Open System Preferences > Hazel and add a folder to watch using the Folder pane’s Plus button. Then create rules for that folder, adding each using the Plus button beneath the Rules pane. You can

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