I’m Steve and I’m a fileaholic. When I’m in my “flow” – I’m doing screenshots and downloading files to desktop or downloads folders like a maniac. I often will run across an problem when I need to refind a screenshot of file whose file name is “image.jpg” or “screenshot date.png” – Can’t ever find that. Also, it eats up a lot of space. I’ve tried to go through my files but looking at a file and then finding where to put it takes a lot of time.
Thus was born my next Claude Cowork project. Here’s my initial prompt:
I don’t think this is a good idea and you may not be able to do it, but is it possible to create a process that I could point to a folder and allow me to quickly review each file and then place them into a specific folder or delete them? I’d like them to remember certain files and automatically file them. A big bunch of them are screen captures that mostly need to be deleted but some I’d like to keep. I’m not sure this would be able to be or would be a good idea to be automated but if it brought up a file large enough to see it and maybe press a key command to file it or delete it? Zero would always delete and the last 9 folders would appear to place the file into that folder.
Reading my prompt, it’s clear that I’m a negative person, OK? Claude Cowork blew me away. I thought it was strange that again, it was initially offering me to build a web application. This is pretty much just “Claude” at this point. I doublechecked and it said that the web was the best way because it offered you the interactivity I wanted and that couldn’t be done inside of Claude on the Mac.
Asking me questions has been a great way to work with our AI Overloards™ Here’s my first series of questions and answers:
It has assumed I would pre-select the folders before starting the file uploads. I suggested a change:
Thanks. One change, rather than preselecting a folder, can I select a folder when I’m prompted? I then select a folder and it appears in the the list. When the list is full, I can release the one that has been used the least. How does that sound?
Here’s a demo:
I made additional feature requests including
- the ability to preview PDF
- move the buttons to the right side and extend them
- show the target folder name and below it, the enclosing folder name (to be sure about the target folder
- ability to support previewing for Microsoft files
- ability to rename files
- it was remembering skipped files, I asked it not to do that.
One thing I learned will be to ask Claude to version the outputs. I wanted to show initial versions and they were overwritten. They were able to recreate the original versions however so I could do the screenshots above. A very workable tool.
