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Organize Your Downloads Folder with One Voice Command

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Your Downloads folder is a graveyard. PDFs from six months ago, duplicate images, random installers, receipts you'll never find again. You know you should organize it, but it's a thirty-minute chore you keep putting off.

With Vox, it's one sentence.

Instant folder cleanup

Computer, organize my Downloads folder. Sort files by type into subfolders and delete anything older than 90 days.

Vox — File Organization
Listing ~/Downloads via list_local_directoryDone
Found 247 files — categorizing by extensionDone
Creating subfolders: PDFs, Images, Documents, InstallersDone
Moving 247 files into categorized foldersDone
Deleting 83 files older than 90 days via delete_local_pathDone

See what happened

Result
~/Downloads reorganized:
PDFs/ — 42 files
Images/ — 89 files
Documents/ — 31 files
Installers/ — 19 files
Spreadsheets/ — 14 files
Other/ — 52 files
Deleted 83 files (older than 90 days)

Custom rules, remembered

Tell Vox your preferences once and it applies them every time:

Computer, whenever you organize my Downloads, keep the last 30 days of receipts in a Receipts folder and move everything from Amazon to an Online Orders folder.

Tip

Vox stores these rules in persistent memory. Next time you say “clean up Downloads,” it already knows your system.

Works on any folder

This isn't limited to Downloads. Organize your Desktop, your Documents folder, or even an external drive:

Computer, sort all the photos on my external drive by year and month.

Computer, find all PDF receipts in my Documents and move them to a Tax folder.

Vox uses list_local_directory to scan, read_local_file to inspect contents when needed, and write_local_file plus delete_local_path to reorganize — all orchestrated from a single command.


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