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Automate the organisation of your Downloads folder

30–60 minutes · Use what you have · Easy

A small, properly bounded project: Automate the organisation of your Downloads folder. Start with a working first version, pay attention to what you notice, and leave yourself with something you can use, understand or show someone.

Photograph of a row of neatly organized red ring binders on a shelf, representing sorted files.
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Do it

  1. Clear a little space and decide what a finished first attempt looks like.
  2. Gather only the tools, materials or information needed for that first attempt.
  3. Work through the basic version slowly, checking each change as you make it.
  4. Test, use or observe the result, then write down one improvement for next time.

What next?

Keep the useful notes, photograph the result if there is one, then go and find something else to do.