Lately I’ve been using chatGPT to create a bunch of small custom python programs to do stuff like this (if I can’t easily find an existing program to do what I want).

For example I would tell it something like:

Create a python program that does the following:

-asks the user for a directory to process

-sorts the files in that folder according to file type, placing them into appropriately named sub-folders, eg all image files into a folder named "images", all music files into "music" and so on.

-creates any new sub folders before moving the files

-moves the files verbosely

-gives the user a notification upon finishing

You can customize it to do exactly what you want, and it takes only seconds for it to give you the code.

I can’t even begin to tell you how much time it’s saved me over the last few weeks, automating simple stuff that would normally take ages.

Such AI can be coded in <100 lines shell script. One of simplest implementations:

#!/bin/bash

find . -type f -print0 | while IFS= read -d $'\0' f; do 
  type=$(file --mime-type --brief "$f")
  mkdir -p "$type"
  mv "$f" "${type}/"
done

Every single file on my computer is saved under ~/Downloads why would I want to sort it somewhere else when I already know exactly where it is?