Productivity Hacks

Automatically Clean Up Your Mac Desktop

No Coding or Download Required

Ariel Lim
5 min readApr 7, 2019

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Is your Mac’s desktop full of files and folders that you said you’ll clean later, but just couldn’t get to it?

Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a free, yet automated solution to clean up your Mac desktop?

I’m telling you right now, there is. And it’s already built-in your Mac…

For most people, their desktop is the temporary holding space of files and documents. But because we’re all busy (lazy), we suddenly realize one day our desktop is so messy it’s impossible to find what you’re looking for. Then we make a vow to clean this again next time.

What if I tell you that you can keep your desktop clean — free from any files and folders forever — in just 5 minutes? Keep reading…

Most articles I found online about this topic either fall into these three buckets:

  1. Tips and tricks to organize your files into folders
  2. Use the new feature called Stacks in macOS Mojave
  3. Copy all documents/files and dump them into a new folder

I’m not going to cover any one of those.

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Ariel Lim

Marketer, freelancer, husband | The Startup, Better Marketing, The Ascent, PGSG | Find out how I grew my organic traffic by 110% in 5 mo: https://bit.ly/3fpilkW