It (at least the version on github) crashes on my macbook m1 pro
Thanks for reporting this John2022! As mdaniel mention, please file an issue on GitHub so it’s tracked and others can see updates or add details. That way I can fix it faster.
Readit Newsbobnarizes commented on Show HN: Fallinorg - Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning fallinorg.com/#... · Posted by u/bobnarizes
bobnarizes commented on Show HN: Fallinorg - Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning fallinorg.com/#... · Posted by u/bobnarizes
bobnarizes - I have been toying with an idea like this for sometime. I have already bought yours! I think there is a great market for this! Best of luck! Keep plugging away!
Thank you very much berkesquires! I really appreciate!
bobnarizes commented on Show HN: Fallinorg - Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning fallinorg.com/#... · Posted by u/bobnarizes
Typo / editing issue:
> Email us at fallinorg@proton.me with ith your refund request and reason. We’ll be happy to assist you.
Not to be a jerk, but if copy-editing for a pre-sale AI feature that operates on my local files includes such an oversight, it doesn’t inspire confidence. I know copy-editing and coding are different domains, but I’m still put off by it.
Good catch — I’ve fixed the typo and I’m sorry for the oversight. Details matter, especially when trust is involved. Thanks for pointing it out!
bobnarizes commented on Show HN: Fallinorg - Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning fallinorg.com/#... · Posted by u/bobnarizes
Even without changing one byte of the actual binary they could get pretty far by just evicting all the test files for those packages they're including. And, related to that, it seems that dist-info/RECORD ends up at 1,050,544 because the onnx folks decided it was important that they cryptographically sign all those test data files they're choosing to ship :-/
Thanks for pointing this out mdaniel & woadwarrior01 — reducing the footprint is definitely on my radar and something I’m actively working on. I actually started with CoreML but switched to ONNX after running into some issues.
That said, it’s kind of amazing that we can run models of ~90 MB this efficiently on our devices today — the performance has been really encouraging. Appreciate the feedback!
bobnarizes commented on Show HN: Fallinorg - Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning fallinorg.com/#... · Posted by u/bobnarizes
Finances and Contracts are for me the same folders.
Also, spaces in folders will absolutely break my legacy scripts on `~` at a future time when I re-run them.
Demo is not that convincing. Also, I need multilanguage support, and am not clear if OCR for PDFs before running is done by this. (Which again, needs beforehand knowledge of which language the document might be in?)
But, cheap, and pay once and offline. Will keep an eye on it.
> Finances and Contracts are for me the same folders.
> Also, spaces in folders will absolutely break my legacy scripts on `~` at a future time when I re-run them.
Folder names and spaces: full customization is coming — you’ll be able to name and organize them however you like.
> Demo is not that convincing.
Demo: what felt missing or unconvincing? Any feedback helps improve it.
> Also, I need multilanguage support
Multi-language: on the roadmap — which languages matter most to you?
> and am not clear if OCR for PDFs before running is done by this.
currently not automatic for scanned PDFs. I’m also validating whether sorting images, videos, and audio based on their content/meaning would provide real value. What do you think?
Thank you so much for testing it and giving all this feedback!
bobnarizes commented on Show HN: Fallinorg - Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning fallinorg.com/#... · Posted by u/bobnarizes
Have you considered offering a Command-Line version as well? I would use something like this if it wasn't just an app and worked on Linux.
Would be neat if it studied your existing organizational patterns and tried to fit any changes to match it.
If there were a CLI version, what would your ideal workflow look like? For example, would you want it to run as a one-off command on a folder, or as something you can integrate into cron/jobs/pipelines/...?
bobnarizes commented on Show HN: Fallinorg - Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning fallinorg.com/#... · Posted by u/bobnarizes
Given that this is a Mac app, have you considered taking advantage of the considerable amount of metadata for files (sometimes including full text content) made available by QuickLook? It could extend functionality for many file formats without requiring the app to be able to parse them.
That's brilliant thank you I will investigate on this! I haven't thought about it.
bobnarizes commented on Show HN: Fallinorg - Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning fallinorg.com/#... · Posted by u/bobnarizes
There's definitely a real market. I'd recommend adding office documents next. And then user defined categories.
Thanks oidar, out of the big three (word, excel, PowerPoint) do you use another ms office documents?
Can you please elaborate more on how would you set up a user define category?
bobnarizes commented on Show HN: Fallinorg - Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning fallinorg.com/#... · Posted by u/bobnarizes
It seems to be less of a "file organizer" than it is a "document organizer" since it only supports plain text and PDF files.
Personally, I don't think I have that many PDF and text files that organizing them manually would be a pain. The organization logic also is a miss for me, since I don't really organize my documents in buckets like "Legal & Contracts", but rather I have folders like "Car" (for my car's service records, bill of sale, owner's manual, etc.) and "Mortgage" (mortgage quotes, contracts, etc) that's housed under "Apartment".
Doesn't help that most of these documents are not in English.
You’re right — at the moment it’s limited to text and PDFs, but this is just the starting point. Support for more file types, more languages, and full customization (so you can define your own categories, folder names, and destinations) will be rolled out next.
I’d love to learn from your use case: what are the top 5 file types you find yourself storing most often on your Mac?
Thanks for the feedback!
Me again, thank you very much for testing Fallinorg and letting me know about the crash. Since I don’t see it on my machine, could you help me by sending the crash report?
You can find it here: - Open Console.app → “Crash Reports” → look for a file starting with Fallinorg (it will end with .ips). - Or check in this folder: ~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/.
If you send me the latest .ips file (fallinorg@proton.me), it will help me understand exactly what’s happening and fix it quickly.
Really appreciate your help!