Organize Files

sift organize builds a deterministic plan for a directory’s files and, with --apply, executes it.

# Current directory
sift

# Another directory
sift ~/Downloads

# Explicit command
sift organize ~/Downloads

# Apply after reviewing
sift organize ~/Downloads --apply

Note that bare sift and sift <path> are shorthand for a dry-run organize — there’s no separate “default” command.

Built-in categories

Documents/
Images/
Audio/
Video/
Archives/
3D/
Code/
Data/
Other/

Unknown ordinary files go to Other/ by default. See Classification for the full extension table, and Configuration → Overview to change unknown to skip instead.

Verbose output

sift organize ~/Downloads --apply --verbose

Lists every skipped entry individually instead of collapsing large lists into a count.

JSON output

sift organize ~/Downloads --json

See JSON and Scripting.

Recursive Organization — organizing eligible subdirectories in place.
Organize Folders — moving whole child folders instead of individual files.
Strategies — classifying by date or metadata instead of extension.