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hyperfield / ai-file-sorter

ai-file-sorter

Cross-platform desktop application for content-aware file organization and renaming. Supports local and remote LLMs, preview-based workflows, and fully user-controlled changes.

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7Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1.9KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Cross-platform desktop application for content-aware file organization and renaming. Supports local and remote LLMs, preview-based workflows, and fully user-controlled changes.

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month7 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-01-31 10:12:31 UTC to 2026-01-12 22:10:38 UTC.

0122025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJan 20252025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 commentsJul 20252025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 2026

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Jan 20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Feb 20252025-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 20252025-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20252025-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20252025-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20252025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20252025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC220
Aug 20252025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20252025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20252025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC220
Nov 20252025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Dec 20252025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20262026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Show HN: Use local LLMs to organize your files

Hi everyone, Just wanted to share a use case where local LLMs are genuinely helpful for daily workflows: file organization. I've been working on a C++ desktop app called AI File Sorter – it uses local LLMs via `llama.cpp` to help organize messy folders like `Downloads` or `Desktop`. Not sort files into folders solely based on extension or filename patterns, but based on what each file actually is supposed to do or does. Basically: what would normally take me a great deal of time for dragging and sorting can now be done in a few. It's cross-platform (Windows/macOS/Linux), and fully open-source. [GitHub repo](https://github.com/hyperfield/ai-file-sorter) [Screenshot 1](https://i.imgur.com/HlEer13.png) - LLM selection and download [Screenshot 2](https://i.imgur.com/KCxk6Io.png) - Select a folder to scan [Screenshot 3](https://i.imgur.com/QTU
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G5KB.png) - Review, edit and confirm or continue later You can download the installer for Windows in [Releases](https://github.com/hyperfield/ai-file-sorter/releases) or the Standalone ZIP from the [app's website](https://filesorter.app/download/). Installers for Linux and macOS are coming up. You can, however, easily [build the app from source](https://github.com/hyperfield/ai-file-sorter/blob/main/READM...) for Linux or macOS. --- ### How it works 1. You choose which model you want the app to interface with. The app will download the model for you. You can switch models later on. 2. You point the app at a folder, and it feeds a prompt to the model. 3. It then suggests folder categories like `Operating Systems / Linux distributions`, `Programming / Scripts`, `Images / Logos`, etc. You can review and approve before anything is moved, and you can continue the same sorting session later from where you left off. Models tested: - LLaMa 3 (3B) - Mistral (7B) - With CUDA / OpenCL / OpenBLAS support - Other GPU back-ends can also be enabled on `llama.cpp` compile --- ### Try it out * Windows: [SourceForge](https://sourceforge.net/projects/ai-file-sorter/) or [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/hyperfield/ai-file-sorter/releases) * Linux/macOS: build from source (instructions in the [README](https://github.com/hyperfield/ai-file-sorter/blob/main/READM...)) --- I’d love feedback from others using local models, especially around: - Speed and accuracy in categorizing files - Model suggestions that might be more efficient than Mistral/LLaMa - Any totally different way to approach this problem? - Is this local LLM use case actually useful to you or people like you, or should the app shift its focus? Thanks for reading!
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