Hi HN,
Fallinorg is a local macOS app that organizes files by their meaning, not just their name or type.
Problem: My Downloads and Desktop folders kept filling up with cryptically named, duplicate, or unrelated files. Over time, cleaning up and finding the right file became a pain.
Solution: It uses Sentence Transformers (SBERT) to understand the content and context of files, then automatically groups them. It runs fully offline, so you can safely classify sensitive files (finance, medical, personal, etc.). On Apple Silicon, it parses, tokenizes, and categorizes a file in about ~1.2 seconds.
Current version: Supports .txt and .pdf files in English; I’m working on adding more formats and languages.
Looking for feedback on: Classification accuracy, speed, pricing ideas, and potential bulk operations or integrations.
I first launched a few weeks ago and have been rapidly adding features based on early feedback. Happy to answer questions and share implementation details.
raybb · 56m ago
I'd recommend adding a video or gif that demonstrates how it works for organizing files. I kinda get it but would prefer to see it in action before downloading
bobnarizes · 52m ago
The video will be displayed at the top of the homepage. Since I’m hosting it on GitHub Pages, the server might occasionally be overloaded.
This becomes interesting once you support epub, cbz, cbr.
itsdesmond · 48m ago
Presale pricing is weird, or at least unclear. I am totally fine with pricing strategies where you buy a perpetual license for the current major version only but this seems like less than that. It appears that for $10 we can have something available for free that may be updated some unknown amount, but probably without any significant new behavior, and then we’ll get a discount that could very well be less than the $10 we put in.
You could improve the situation by presenting some kind of roadmap and indicating the limit of presale or stating clearly the amount, or a minimum amount, of discount on V1 offered to presale purchasers.
I haven’t yet tried the thing but it looks interesting. It also looks reminiscent of quickly implemented Whisper or GPT-3 front ends released a couple years ago. I’d like to better understand the value you’re providing over Apple Intelligence provided APIs.
bobnarizes · 32m ago
Thanks a lot for the thoughtful feedback — I’ll definitely add a roadmap and make the presale terms clearer (e.g. version limits and minimum discounts). That’s very fair.
Regarding Apple Intelligence: you’re right, Apple is integrating more AI features at the OS level, but from what I’ve seen, it’s still quite limited. For example, semantic search are not really handled in a way that solves the problem. Fallinorg is built to work fully offline, across any file type, and with deeper control/flexibility than what Apple currently exposes through their APIs.
Put simply: if Apple ever does this well, great — but right now, I think there’s still a lot of room for a tool that is private, offline, and purpose-built for file management.
bapak · 33m ago
This is the kind of things Apple should focus on. Automatic file organization is right up Apple's alley, if they were ever to wake up the Finder's dev team from the 20-year hibernation.
r00t- · 51m ago
"Download Pre-Sale" is a bit sketchy. Why not just make a trial?
bobnarizes · 45m ago
I wanted to validate whether there’s real market interest and if people would actually be willing to pay for a tool like this, since it solves a real problem.
It seems to be less of a "file organizer" than it is a "document organizer" since it only supports plain text and PDF files.
Personally, I don't think I have that many PDF and text files that organizing them manually would be a pain. The organization logic also is a miss for me, since I don't really organize my documents in buckets like "Legal & Contracts", but rather I have folders like "Car" (for my car's service records, bill of sale, owner's manual, etc.) and "Mortgage" (mortgage quotes, contracts, etc) that's housed under "Apartment".
Doesn't help that most of these documents are not in English.
bobnarizes · 27m ago
You’re right — at the moment it’s limited to text and PDFs, but this is just the starting point. Support for more file types, more languages, and full customization (so you can define your own categories, folder names, and destinations) will be rolled out next.
I’d love to learn from your use case: what are the top 5 file types you find yourself storing most often on your Mac?
Problem: My Downloads and Desktop folders kept filling up with cryptically named, duplicate, or unrelated files. Over time, cleaning up and finding the right file became a pain.
Solution: It uses Sentence Transformers (SBERT) to understand the content and context of files, then automatically groups them. It runs fully offline, so you can safely classify sensitive files (finance, medical, personal, etc.). On Apple Silicon, it parses, tokenizes, and categorizes a file in about ~1.2 seconds.
You can download and test it now for free: https://github.com/taranntell/fallinorg/releases/tag/1.0.0-b...
Current version: Supports .txt and .pdf files in English; I’m working on adding more formats and languages.
Looking for feedback on: Classification accuracy, speed, pricing ideas, and potential bulk operations or integrations.
I first launched a few weeks ago and have been rapidly adding features based on early feedback. Happy to answer questions and share implementation details.
You can also access the video directly here: https://fallinorg.com/assets/demo.mp4
You could improve the situation by presenting some kind of roadmap and indicating the limit of presale or stating clearly the amount, or a minimum amount, of discount on V1 offered to presale purchasers.
I haven’t yet tried the thing but it looks interesting. It also looks reminiscent of quickly implemented Whisper or GPT-3 front ends released a couple years ago. I’d like to better understand the value you’re providing over Apple Intelligence provided APIs.
Regarding Apple Intelligence: you’re right, Apple is integrating more AI features at the OS level, but from what I’ve seen, it’s still quite limited. For example, semantic search are not really handled in a way that solves the problem. Fallinorg is built to work fully offline, across any file type, and with deeper control/flexibility than what Apple currently exposes through their APIs.
Put simply: if Apple ever does this well, great — but right now, I think there’s still a lot of room for a tool that is private, offline, and purpose-built for file management.
That said, I’d love if you give it a try, here's the download link: https://github.com/taranntell/fallinorg/releases/tag/1.0.0-b...
Personally, I don't think I have that many PDF and text files that organizing them manually would be a pain. The organization logic also is a miss for me, since I don't really organize my documents in buckets like "Legal & Contracts", but rather I have folders like "Car" (for my car's service records, bill of sale, owner's manual, etc.) and "Mortgage" (mortgage quotes, contracts, etc) that's housed under "Apartment".
Doesn't help that most of these documents are not in English.
I’d love to learn from your use case: what are the top 5 file types you find yourself storing most often on your Mac?
Thanks for the feedback!