Clean Up Your Desktop in Seconds
A messy desktop is a universal problem. Screenshots, downloads, half-finished documents, installer files — they accumulate faster than anyone clears them, and reorganizing them manually means opening Finder or Explorer and doing a lot of dragging and deciding. Eigent does it for you with a single prompt.
Open Eigent and Describe the Task
You don't need a detailed prompt for this one. The simplest version works:
Help me organise my desktop.
Eigent will assess what's on your desktop, infer sensible categories based on file types and names, and propose an organization structure before making any changes.
Eigent Audits Your Desktop
Before moving anything, Eigent takes stock of what's there. It looks at file types, creation dates, and filenames to understand what kind of clutter you're dealing with. Common categories it identifies include:
- Screenshots and images
- Downloaded installers and archived files
- Documents, PDFs, and spreadsheets
- Code files and project folders
- Temporary files or unidentified items
Files Get Sorted Into Folders
Eigent creates subfolders and moves files into them based on category. The folder structure is intuitive — things like "Screenshots", "Documents", "Installers", and "Archives" — so you can find everything again easily even if you didn't design the system yourself.
If you want to customize the categories, include that in the prompt:
Help me organise my desktop. Put all screenshots in a folder called "Captures", all PDFs in "Reading", and move everything older than 3 months into an "Archive" folder.
Review What Moved
Once the task is complete, Eigent reports what it did — which files were moved, what folders were created, and whether anything was left in place because it was unclear. You can review the result and ask Eigent to adjust:
Move the project files you put in "Documents" into a separate folder called "Projects" instead.
Why This Matters
This is the simplest possible version of a workflow automation: one prompt, one task, done. But it demonstrates something important — you don't need to describe every step of what you want Eigent to do. Saying "help me organise my desktop" is enough for Eigent to understand the intent, assess the situation, and execute the work. That same principle scales to far more complex tasks.
What to Try Next
Organize my Downloads folder the same way.
Sort the files on my desktop by project and create a folder for each one.
Archive everything on my desktop that I haven't opened in the past 30 days.
After organizing, tell me the five largest files on my desktop so I can decide whether to keep them.
Tips for Better Results
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Add preferences if you have them. "Keep any files that have 'final' in the name on the desktop" or "don't touch the folder named 'Active Projects'" gives Eigent guardrails that match your actual workflow.
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Run it regularly. Desktop organization is something that needs to happen repeatedly, not once. Once you've established the folder structure you like, re-running the same prompt keeps things tidy over time.
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Ask for a summary report. Adding "after you're done, tell me what you moved and where" means you have a clear record of the changes in case you need to find something.
