Hi HN,
Fallinorg is a local macOS app that organizes files by their meaning, not just their name or type.
Problem: My Downloads and Desktop folders kept filling up with cryptically named, duplicate, or unrelated files. Over time, cleaning up and finding the right file became a pain.
Solution: It uses Sentence Transformers (SBERT) to understand the content and context of files, then automatically groups them. It runs fully offline, so you can safely classify sensitive files (finance, medical, personal, etc.). On Apple Silicon, it parses, tokenizes, and categorizes a file in about ~1.2 seconds.
Current version: Supports .txt and .pdf files in English; I’m working on adding more formats and languages.
Looking for feedback on: Classification accuracy, speed, pricing ideas, and potential bulk operations or integrations.
I first launched a few weeks ago and have been rapidly adding features based on early feedback. Happy to answer questions and share implementation details.
Presale pricing is weird, or at least unclear. I am totally fine with pricing strategies where you buy a perpetual license for the current major version only but this seems like less than that. It appears that for $10 we can have something available for free that may be updated some unknown amount, but probably without any significant new behavior, and then we’ll get a discount that could very well be less than the $10 we put in.
You could improve the situation by presenting some kind of roadmap and indicating the limit of presale or stating clearly the amount, or a minimum amount, of discount on V1 offered to presale purchasers.
I haven’t yet tried the thing but it looks interesting. It also looks reminiscent of quickly implemented Whisper or GPT-3 front ends released a couple years ago. I’d like to better understand the value you’re providing over Apple Intelligence provided APIs.
It seems to be less of a "file organizer" than it is a "document organizer" since it only supports plain text and PDF files.
Personally, I don't think I have that many PDF and text files that organizing them manually would be a pain. The organization logic also is a miss for me, since I don't really organize my documents in buckets like "Legal & Contracts", but rather I have folders like "Car" (for my car's service records, bill of sale, owner's manual, etc.) and "Mortgage" (mortgage quotes, contracts, etc) that's housed under "Apartment".
Doesn't help that most of these documents are not in English.
This is the kind of things Apple should focus on. Automatic file organization is right up Apple's alley, if they were ever to wake up the Finder's dev team from the 20-year hibernation.
Built a CLI to do this for my own needs. Uses TOML to configure multiple top-level folders (work, personal, etc) as well as filename normalization preferences. Then uses vector matching on filenames to match files to sub directories. Doesn't read the file contents though like OPs app. https://github.com/natelandau/neatfile
Finances and Contracts are for me the same folders.
Also, spaces in folders will absolutely break my legacy scripts on `~` at a future time when I re-run them.
Demo is not that convincing. Also, I need multilanguage support, and am not clear if OCR for PDFs before running is done by this. (Which again, needs beforehand knowledge of which language the document might be in?)
But, cheap, and pay once and offline. Will keep an eye on it.
I could really really use something that would OCR and classify all the screenshots I take of stuff to remember. Have an enormous folder of the damn things.
Keep It is a notebook and document organizer for Mac, and is also available as a separate app for iPhone and iPad. Keep It can create and edit notes, rich text, plain text and Markdown files, scan documents, edit PDFs, archive emails, save web links in a variety of formats, preview and search just about any kind of file, and organize these in a variety of ways. All the files, folders and tags you store in Keep It are available in the Finder, and can be shared with other Keep It users via iCloud.
Me again, thank you very much for testing Fallinorg and letting me know about the crash. Since I don’t see it on my machine, could you help me by sending the crash report?
You can find it here:
- Open Console.app → “Crash Reports” → look for a file starting with Fallinorg (it will end with .ips).
- Or check in this folder: ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/.
If you send me the latest .ips file (fallinorg@proton.me), it will help me understand exactly what’s happening and fix it quickly.
> Email us at fallinorg@proton.me with ith your refund request and reason. We’ll be happy to assist you.
Not to be a jerk, but if copy-editing for a pre-sale AI feature that operates on my local files includes such an oversight, it doesn’t inspire confidence. I know copy-editing and coding are different domains, but I’m still put off by it.
bobnarizes - I have been toying with an idea like this for sometime. I have already bought yours! I think there is a great market for this! Best of luck! Keep plugging away!
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 33.7 ms ] threadProblem: My Downloads and Desktop folders kept filling up with cryptically named, duplicate, or unrelated files. Over time, cleaning up and finding the right file became a pain.
Solution: It uses Sentence Transformers (SBERT) to understand the content and context of files, then automatically groups them. It runs fully offline, so you can safely classify sensitive files (finance, medical, personal, etc.). On Apple Silicon, it parses, tokenizes, and categorizes a file in about ~1.2 seconds.
You can download and test it now for free: https://github.com/taranntell/fallinorg/releases/tag/1.0.0-b...
Current version: Supports .txt and .pdf files in English; I’m working on adding more formats and languages.
Looking for feedback on: Classification accuracy, speed, pricing ideas, and potential bulk operations or integrations.
I first launched a few weeks ago and have been rapidly adding features based on early feedback. Happy to answer questions and share implementation details.
You could improve the situation by presenting some kind of roadmap and indicating the limit of presale or stating clearly the amount, or a minimum amount, of discount on V1 offered to presale purchasers.
I haven’t yet tried the thing but it looks interesting. It also looks reminiscent of quickly implemented Whisper or GPT-3 front ends released a couple years ago. I’d like to better understand the value you’re providing over Apple Intelligence provided APIs.
Personally, I don't think I have that many PDF and text files that organizing them manually would be a pain. The organization logic also is a miss for me, since I don't really organize my documents in buckets like "Legal & Contracts", but rather I have folders like "Car" (for my car's service records, bill of sale, owner's manual, etc.) and "Mortgage" (mortgage quotes, contracts, etc) that's housed under "Apartment".
Doesn't help that most of these documents are not in English.
Would be neat if it studied your existing organizational patterns and tried to fit any changes to match it.
onnxruntime has Swift bindings[1], consider using that. Or better yet use CoreML. You'll also be able to support x86 Macs with either of those.
[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime-swift-package-manag...
Also, spaces in folders will absolutely break my legacy scripts on `~` at a future time when I re-run them.
Demo is not that convincing. Also, I need multilanguage support, and am not clear if OCR for PDFs before running is done by this. (Which again, needs beforehand knowledge of which language the document might be in?)
But, cheap, and pay once and offline. Will keep an eye on it.
Keep It is a notebook and document organizer for Mac, and is also available as a separate app for iPhone and iPad. Keep It can create and edit notes, rich text, plain text and Markdown files, scan documents, edit PDFs, archive emails, save web links in a variety of formats, preview and search just about any kind of file, and organize these in a variety of ways. All the files, folders and tags you store in Keep It are available in the Finder, and can be shared with other Keep It users via iCloud.
https://reinventedsoftware.com/keepit/
Me again, thank you very much for testing Fallinorg and letting me know about the crash. Since I don’t see it on my machine, could you help me by sending the crash report?
You can find it here: - Open Console.app → “Crash Reports” → look for a file starting with Fallinorg (it will end with .ips). - Or check in this folder: ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/.
If you send me the latest .ips file (fallinorg@proton.me), it will help me understand exactly what’s happening and fix it quickly.
Really appreciate your help!
> Email us at fallinorg@proton.me with ith your refund request and reason. We’ll be happy to assist you.
Not to be a jerk, but if copy-editing for a pre-sale AI feature that operates on my local files includes such an oversight, it doesn’t inspire confidence. I know copy-editing and coding are different domains, but I’m still put off by it.