SlothTidy: A Zero-Friction, 100% Local AI File Daemon That Organizes Your Downloads While You Rest 🦥

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: Slow and Steady</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>A three-toed sloth moves at 0.24 km/h and survives on roughly 110 kilocalories a day because it refuses to waste metabolic energy on unnecessary movement. Humans, on the other hand, waste hours every month manually opening <code>scan_0042 (1).pdf</code>, figuring out what it is, renaming it, creating a folder, and dragging it out of <code>~/Downloads</code>.</p> <p><strong>SlothTidy</strong>

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: Slow and Steady</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>A three-toed sloth moves at 0.24 km/h and survives on roughly 110 kilocalories a day because it refuses to waste metabolic energy on unnecessary movement. Humans, on the other hand, waste hours every month manually opening <code>scan_0042 (1).pdf</code>, figuring out what it is, renaming it, creating a folder, and dragging it out of <code>~/Downloads</code>.</p> <p><strong>SlothTidy</strong>

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: Slow and Steady</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>A three-toed sloth moves at 0.24 km/h and survives on roughly 110 kilocalories a day because it refuses to waste metabolic energy on unnecessary movement. Humans, on the other hand, waste hours every month manually opening <code>scan_0042 (1).pdf</code>, figuring out what it is, renaming it, creating a folder, and dragging it out of <code>~/Downloads</code>.</p> <p><strong>SlothTidy</strong>

Evidence

SlothTidy: A Zero-Friction, 100% Local AI File Daemon That Organizes Your Downloads While You Rest 🦥

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