Desktop Tidy For Mac

Storing files and folders on your desktop in order to quickly have access to them is a common practice that unfortunately tends to clutter your desktop.

Desktop Tidy is a small but quite efficient Mac app that creates a Shadow Desktop and automatically moves your files there in order to keep your screen clean.

Working with Desktop Tidy should not raise any issues: when you launch the application you will be able to browse through a small tutorial panel providing essential information that should get you going.

However, be careful when dealing with the Quick Start panel: here you can enable or disable the Tidy Periodically function and specify which folders or files should be ignored.

If you do not tamper with the default settings, all the contents of your desktop folder will be moved to the Shadow Desktop and the process will repeat every minute.

The Desktop Tidy clean up frequency can be adjusted from the Preferences window: the process can repeat once every 5, 10 or 30 minutes, once every 1, 3 or 8 hours, once a day or once every 7 days. The same area allows you to change the location of the Shadow Desktop folder.

At the same time, Desktop Tidy will place an icon in your status bar that provides quick access to a list of all the moved files and folders, allows you to navigate the folders and enables you to preview the files content in a thumbnail panel. You can apply different filters to the list in order to find a specific item faster.

To sum it all up, Desktop Tidy is a very useful OS X app for those users who are looking for a way to quickly clean up their desktop while preserving easy access to all their files.

Moreover, since the Desktop Tidy app is able to ignore user specified files and folders, you will also be able to keep on your screen only the most important projects.