Free rule sets, curated by hand

Recipes for a Mac
that sorts itself.

Download a recipe, import it into Tidy, and your Downloads folder starts working for the way you do. They never replace the rules you already have — importing only adds.

Install in three clicks: 1 Download a recipe 2 Tidy → Flow Rules → Import 3 Review, switch off what you don't need

For photographers

RAW files (CR2 / NEF / ARW / DNG…) to RAW, grouped by month
JPG / HEIC / TIFF exports to Exports, by month
Presets and profiles to Presets

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For developers

.dmg / .pkg older than 7 days to Installers
ZIP / TAR archives to Archives
Logs and crash reports to Logs, by month

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For finance & freelancers

PDFs that say "invoice" inside to Invoices, renamed from their content
Spreadsheets to Spreadsheets
PDFs that say "statement" to Statements

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For students

Lecture PDFs to Course PDFs, by month
DOCX / PPTX / Pages to Documents
EPUB books to Books

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For designers

Figma / Sketch / PSD / AI to Design
Fonts (TTF / OTF / WOFF) to Fonts
SVG / WebP assets to Assets

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Recipes need Tidy 2.1 or newer (rule import shipped in 2.1). The finance recipe uses content matching and OCR renaming — those rules read inside your PDFs, always on-device. Don't have Tidy yet? It's $9 once, at tidymacapp.com.