Mac Power Users, episode 25 doing today, Katie?

I'm doing great, David.

It's good to be geeking out with you once again.

Yes, it is.

I really enjoy getting behind the microphone and talking about the Mac.

And this episode in particular is one I've been looking forward to recording.

It's all about Hazel.

Yeah, this episode is your baby.

You are the acknowledged Hazel master.

Now you're making me nervous, but I think you'll find by the end of this episode that Hazel really

doesn't require much mastery at all. If you can run iTunes, smart playlists, you can run Hazel.

But the thing that I find fascinating with Hazel is that people who spend a little time with it come up with uses for it that are quite remarkable and we're going to get through that in the show, But I really look forward to the payoff of this episode is getting emails and seeing comments from listeners with some of their hazel ideas that I would have never even thought of that I can take and use in my workflows. So it's really a great app.

Yeah, and I guess we should we talk a little bit about what Hazel is very generally

and that it does a couple of things, but primarily it's rule-based file management.

If you use rules in Apple Mail, you're familiar with the standard, if then rule statement, if this is true then do this action

but it will actually monitor files or folders and in areas of your Mac and then apply certain rules in the background and the idea is it's really going to do hopefully a lot of those housekeeping tasks for you to keep your Mac running lean.

Now you're not old enough to remember Hazel, are you? The housekeeper on the TV show? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I it was reruns when I was a kid but I remember

Hey Dick at night man. Yeah, being home sick and you know you had to watch Green Acres and Hazel and it was it was a good enough reason to not get sick because TV was so bad.

But Hazel's back and now I love Hazel because she's on my Mac and I stumbled across this app

I don't know a couple of years ago and wrote an extended review on it at Max Sparky and did one for Tim over at Surf Bits

But you know sometimes you review apps and after a while they kind of fade away and this one just gets better with time. I mean you always find new new uses for it if you think about it.

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