SlothSort: Open-Source AI Tool Tidies Messy Folders Using a Local Gemma Model
A developer built SlothSort, a free tool that uses Google's open-weight Gemma 3 model, run locally through Ollama, to organize cluttered folders. The app reads file names and the opening lines of text files, then proposes folders and cleaner names for the user to review and approve before anything moves. It never deletes or overwrites files, logs each move so the last tidy-up can be undone, and keeps all data on the user's machine. In a test on 23 messy files, the tool took about three minutes to produce a plan on a laptop without a graphics card, compared with roughly 11 minutes of manual sorting. The developer noted it sometimes misfiled items, such as placing a boarding pass among invoices, because it cannot see the content of photos and PDFs.
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