Looking for AI tools to organize years of files. Opinions, Suggestions?
I've got the file mess situation most of use have. Over a decade of accumulated files across dozens of folders: work projects mixed with personal stuff, invoices and receipts scattered everywhere, project folders, laptop drives hastily backed-up , the usual chaos.
I need something that can look at a file and think "this is an electric bill, put it in Bills/Utilities" or "this is from Job #1, put it in Work/Job1/". Not just sort by file type. I need content-aware, semantic understanding of what each file actually is.
I've been looking at:
Local-File-Organizer (https://github.com/curdriceaurora/Local-File-Organizer) - seems most polished, Ollama-based, has custom rules, suggests it learns from past organization patterns
sortwise (https://github.com/Dheya-12/sortwise) - simpler, tiered classifiers (extension -> ML -> LLM), but seems less mature
My specific questions for anyone who's actually used these:
Does it actually learn your existing folder structure, or does it impose its own? I already have a Bills/Utilities/ folder. I want files routed there, not have it create something new.
How does it handle duplicates? I know I have multiple copies of some things from over the years.
Performance on large batches. I'm talking potentially 100,000+ files. Does it choke?
For Local-File-Organizer specifically ... is the "suggest patterns" feature actually useful, or is it gimmicky?
Any other tools I should be looking at?
I run a modest local Ollama instance, so that isn't an issue. Open source preferred. Not interested in anything that just slaps 30 tags on every file (a la Paperless-AI). I want actual folder organization.
Thanks for the help.