Type

type is the default strategy for any directory without a .sift.toml, and never reads file contents — only the extension, case-insensitively.

[organize]
strategy = "type"
unknown = "other"   # or "skip"

See Classification for the full category table (Documents, Images, Audio, Video, Archives, 3D, Code, Data, Other, Junk).

unknown

Controls what happens to a file with an extension type doesn’t recognize:

• "other" (default) — organized into Other/.
• "skip" — left in place, untouched.

Recursion

type fully supports --recursive — see Recursive Organization. It’s one of only two strategies that do (the other is date); the four metadata strategies below don’t.

Related strategies

Reading metadata instead of just the extension:

• Date — filesystem modification time.
• Audio — artist/album/genre tags.
• Video — resolution, codec, optionally duration/fps.
• Photos — EXIF camera and capture date.
• Documents — PDF/Office author and creation date.