1.12.0
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Routing rules: folders that claim a file by its name, or by where it came
from. A type folder asks what a file is, which settles a.dmgand
settles nothing about an invoice — an invoice is a PDF like every other PDF.
A routing rule is a folder and a list of conditions, and any one of them
matching is enough:name *invoice*, ordownloaded from *stripe*.The second one is the interesting half. macOS records the URL a download
arrived from and keeps it when the file is moved, so a rule can still
recognise something you renamed by hand, and a rule written today matches what
arrived last month. Windows keeps the same thing in theZone.Identifier
stream, so both apps read it. The whole URL is matched, not just the host, and
it is unescaped first — a receipt fromlogitech.comsays what it is only in
its path, and a Stripe invoice arrives from an S3 bucket that mentions neither.Rules are tried before the type folders, top down, first match wins.
OtherwiseDocumentswould swallow an invoice beforeInvoicesever saw it.
Like a type folder, a rule decides where a file goes and never when: it
still waits out the window set under Filing.Conditions ignore case unless you say otherwise, which the skip list does not.
A skip pattern names a file you can see in the folder; a rule is a hunt for a
word that could have been typed either way, and a rule that quietly stops
matching is not something anybody notices. -
Move out: finding things and taking them out of Downloads altogether. The
quarter's invoices into the accounts, a shoot onto an external drive. It never
runs on its own — you say what to look for, the app says what it found and
which condition found it, and only what you tick actually moves.It searches Downloads and every folder Tideline has filed, which is what
makes a rule retroactive: a search written today reaches the invoices already
sitting in2026-07-02/. Filing alone can never do that, because a sweep only
ever sees what is loose in the root.A destination is remembered as a bookmark rather than a path, so it survives
the folder above it being renamed, and it can carry a template —
{yyyy}/kwartaal {q}/in. The tokens fill in from each file's own date, so a
batch that straddles the end of a quarter lands in two folders, which is the
answer the accounting wanted.This is the one thing in the app that writes outside the folder it watches, so
a whole batch is recorded as one and Put Back returns it — each file to
the folder it came from, under the same collision rules as everything else. -
Catching up covers routing rules too. Catch Up… already pulled files out
of the dated folders when a type folder was switched on; it now does the same
for a rule you have just written. -
Move Out… in the menu bar, beside the Reclaim space reviews. Like them it
finds things and asks; unlike a sweep it never acts on its own.
Changed
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Nothing in the window is smaller than 12pt. Explanatory text — the
sentence under a heading, the note beside a control — was two steps down from
body, at the size meant for a number in a column. A pane of it read as small
before it read as anything else. Sizes that were doing real work as small
text, tallies and per-row dates among them, came up with it, and the columns
cut to fit the old size were widened to match. -
Catch Up… stays on the pane you asked from. Asking from Routing rules
jumped the window to Type folders before opening the sheet. It acts on both
kinds of rule, so neither pane is more its home than the other.