Everyday file work
Mel for tidying up your files
Point Mel at the folder you've been avoiding. It looks at what's actually in there, tells you how it would sort it, and shows you the exact command before it moves a single file — so you can say yes, change your mind, or stop.
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Why it helps
The folder you've been avoiding, sorted.
Mel does the sorting, the renaming and the finding. You do the approving.
No commands to learn
Describe what you want in plain English — “put every invoice in its own folder”, “give these a consistent name”. Mel works out how, and tells you what it is about to run.
Nothing happens behind your back
Moving, renaming, writing and deleting all stop and wait for you. Looking at files never interrupts you; changing them always does.
It looks before it acts
Mel reads the folder first, so what it suggests is based on what you actually have — not on a guess about what might be in there.
How it works
Look, plan, approve.
Three steps, and you hold the last one.
- 01
Open the folder
Start Mel in the folder, or drag it in from the file browser in the sidebar. Then say what you want done, the way you'd say it to a person.
- 02
See what it found
Mel lists what's there, groups it, and lays out the steps as a checklist you can watch it work through.
- 03
Approve, one step at a time
Each change arrives as a card with the exact command on it. Allow it, deny it, or tell Mel to stop asking for that kind of change.
Built in
Built for the part that makes you nervous.
The care is in the product, not in your memory — Mel's file tools are deliberately hard to be careless with.
Approval on every change
Moving, renaming, writing and deleting each pause for a yes, with the exact command or the exact edit shown. Allow once, allow that kind always, or deny.
Finds it by name or by content
Ask for “the letter about the boiler” and Mel searches file names and the text inside the files, across the whole folder.
One file at a time
Deleting is per-file and always asks. Hand Mel a whole folder to delete and it refuses, and asks you to confirm that command yourself.
Your files, right there
A file browser sits in the sidebar — expand folders, rename, drag a file into the prompt. File names Mel prints are links you can open.
You approve, not Mel
Every change waits for a yes.
When Mel wants to move, rename, write or delete something, it stops and shows you a card with the exact command or the exact edit on it. Approve it, deny it, or tell Mel to stop asking for that kind of change for the rest of the conversation. Reading and searching never ask — only changing does.
- The exact command, before it runs
- Allow once, allow always, or deny
- Deleting is one file at a time — never a folder
- Reading and searching never interrupt you
More use cases
What else Mel can do.
Research a topic
Search the web, read the pages, and get back a written summary with the sources listed — saved so you can pick it up tomorrow.
ExploreMake a PDF report
Turn notes, findings or a page of numbers into a typeset PDF you can send — headings, tables and callouts, laid out properly.
ExplorePhotos & video
Resize a folder of photos, convert a video, pull the audio out of a clip — using the media tools already installed on your machine.
ExploreGet started
Start with the worst folder you have.
Download Mel, open that folder, and ask it to sort things out. Nothing moves until you say so.