Configuration Examples

Desktop cleanup

Keep your Desktop tidy by sorting files into subdirectories.

version: 1

rules:
  - name: "Screenshots"
    target: "~/Pictures/Screenshots"
    match:
      pattern: "^Screenshot.*"
      extensions: [".png"]
    scope:
      dirs: ["~/Desktop"]

  - name: "PDFs"
    target: "~/Desktop/documents"
    match:
      extensions: [".pdf"]
    scope:
      dirs: ["~/Desktop"]

  - name: "Archives"
    target: "~/Desktop/archives"
    match:
      extensions: [".zip", ".tar", ".gz", ".rar"]
    scope:
      dirs: ["~/Desktop"]

---

Downloads folder

Auto-sort everything that lands in Downloads.

version: 1

rules:
  - name: "Disk images"
    target: "~/Downloads/installers"
    match:
      extensions: [".dmg", ".pkg", ".exe", ".msi"]

  - name: "Videos"
    target: "~/Downloads/videos"
    match:
      extensions: [".mp4", ".mkv", ".mov", ".avi"]

  - name: "Audio"
    target: "~/Downloads/audio"
    match:
      extensions: [".mp3", ".flac", ".wav", ".aac"]

  - name: "Documents"
    target: "~/Downloads/documents"
    match:
      extensions: [".pdf", ".docx", ".xlsx", ".pptx", ".pages", ".numbers"]

  - name: "Images"
    target: "~/Downloads/images"
    match:
      extensions: [".jpg", ".jpeg", ".png", ".gif", ".webp", ".svg"]

---

Archive old files

Move files that haven’t been touched in a long time to an archive.

version: 1

rules:
  - name: "Archive old large videos"
    target: "~/Archive/Videos"
    match:
      extensions: [".mp4", ".mov", ".mkv"]
      min_size: "500MB"
      older_than: "90d"

  - name: "Archive old documents"
    target: "~/Archive/Documents"
    match:
      extensions: [".pdf", ".docx", ".xlsx"]
      older_than: "365d"

---

Project-specific local config

Place a .ordrrc in your project directory to define project-specific rules. These are merged with (and take precedence over) your global ~/.ordrrc.

~/projects/my-app/.ordrrc

version: 1

rules:
  - name: "Design assets"
    target: "assets/design"
    match:
      extensions: [".sketch", ".fig", ".xd"]

  - name: "Exported assets"
    target: "assets/exported"
    match:
      extensions: [".svg", ".png"]
      pattern: "^export_.*"

---

Folder move and flatten

Move an entire folder to a new location, or extract its contents into a target directory.

version: 1

rules:
  # Move a whole folder as a unit
  - name: "Move AppIcons folder"
    target: "~/Pictures/Icons"
    match:
      type: dir
      pattern: "^AppIcons$"
    options:
      action: move

  # Extract all files from a folder into a target directory
  - name: "Flatten travel docs"
    target: "~/Documents/Travel"
    match:
      type: dir
      pattern: "(?i)kanada|reise|travel"
    options:
      action: flatten
      remove_empty: true   # delete the source folder if it is empty after extraction

action: move treats the directory as a single unit — it is moved to target/FolderName. action: flatten moves every top-level file inside the directory into target, leaving subdirectories in place.

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Invoice organization

version: 1

rules:
  - name: "Invoices"
    target: "~/Documents/Invoices"
    match:
      extensions: [".pdf"]
      pattern: "(?i)(invoice|rechnung|bill).*"

  - name: "Receipts"
    target: "~/Documents/Receipts"
    match:
      extensions: [".pdf"]
      pattern: "(?i)(receipt|beleg|quittung).*"