Mr. Tidy For Mac

The desktop is the place where most of us put documents, recent downloads, and virtually any other frequently used file. Unfortunately, this might be an issue when you need your desktop to look professional for an upcoming presentation.

Mr. Tidy is a simple app that can help you keep your desktop clean by enabling you to move all contained files and folders to an out of sight location. Note that the app only moves the items, without compressing or altering them in any way.

To start using the Mr. Tidy application, you must begin by authorizing it to manage your Desktop folder. The next step is to navigate to the Mr. Tidy status bar menu and archive your desktop for the first time.

Mr. Tidy will move your files to the Library folder of your user account, in the /Containers/com.herzog.MrTidy/Data/Mr. Tidy’s Desktops/ directory. For each archive, Mr. Tidy generates a new folder and uses the date and time as the naming pattern.

You get to trigger the archiving process manually via the Mr. Tidy menu, or you can enable the Automagic Archive function and have Mr. Tidy clean up the desktop on its own each time you restart your Mac.

The files and folders moved away by Mr. Tidy can still be accessed via the Spotlight, or you can use the status bar menu to navigate to the containing folders in a Finder window. This way, you can still use your files without too much hustle.

To conclude, Mr. Tidy is a simple tool for making sure that your Mac’s desktop is always clean. However, since Mr. Tidy generates new folders for each new cleanup, keeping track of all your documents might prove problematic.