SlothDesk: The Privacy-First Local AI File Organizer That Rewards Your Laziness 🦥

Description and use

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week3-2026-10-19">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Side Hustle</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>Almost every developer and computer user shares the same guilty secret: a <strong>chaotic <code>Downloads</code> or <code>Desktop</code> folder</strong>. </p> <p>Invoices from last spring sit next to software installers, resume revisions (<code>resume_final_v3_really_final.pdf</code>), random screenshots, podcast clips, and zip files. Cleaning it up is a chore we all dread. The thought of manual

Problem

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week3-2026-10-19">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Side Hustle</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>Almost every developer and computer user shares the same guilty secret: a <strong>chaotic <code>Downloads</code> or <code>Desktop</code> folder</strong>. </p> <p>Invoices from last spring sit next to software installers, resume revisions (<code>resume_final_v3_really_final.pdf</code>), random screenshots, podcast clips, and zip files. Cleaning it up is a chore we all dread. The thought of manual

Outcome

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week3-2026-10-19">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Side Hustle</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>Almost every developer and computer user shares the same guilty secret: a <strong>chaotic <code>Downloads</code> or <code>Desktop</code> folder</strong>. </p> <p>Invoices from last spring sit next to software installers, resume revisions (<code>resume_final_v3_really_final.pdf</code>), random screenshots, podcast clips, and zip files. Cleaning it up is a chore we all dread. The thought of manual

Evidence

SlothDesk: The Privacy-First Local AI File Organizer That Rewards Your Laziness 🦥

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