Chad Maltby, September 2026
Let maine show you why.
When you prevention thing the Mac dumps you into a files somewhere. You whitethorn aliases whitethorn not move distant from that. Then you save. Later, some Finder and Spotlight require you to cognize something. Where the record is, what it is called, aliases immoderate contented to aboveground it for you. It requires immoderate knowledge connected your part. If I americium redeeming galore files each day, it is simply a bladed knowledge. If I worked each time yesterday connected 10 different files, really americium I expected to retrieve what I saved connected Thursday?
I usage Finder successful assemblage view, aliases database position pinch abstraction bar, and scroll. Without a amended option. This process is wholly nuts. So I person to prime a spot successful the level of folders and hunt successful it.
I thief tons of friends and family pinch IT stuff. You’d beryllium amazed really galore group don’t get the quality betwixt the Desktop and Documents aliases Downloads. I’ve seen Desktops pinch thousands of files connected them. I’ve seen Downloads folders that person ne'er been emptied out, and truthful galore group who ne'er move thing retired of them.
Computer folders are still organized successful structures group up immoderate 50 years ago. Operating systems change. Computers change. Search changes. But this has ne'er changed. I can't alteration that.
In 1 instance, a friend asked maine to thief him find thing connected his Desktop. I discovered that his Desktop contained much than 1,000 files. One twelvemonth later a personification knows almost thing astir a file, but they still person to find it. So I built a civilization app for him: a drawer that eliminates files level and location knowledge, and shows everything visually. It allowed him to scroll done everything quickly and find it.
That app has grown complete the past twelvemonth to thing I've utilized pinch 20+ people. I recovered much and much group pinch the aforesaid frustration, truthful I decided to move it into thing useful for them and useful for me. This is Kepter.
I would beryllium considered a powerfulness user, person a bully knowledge of the mac's full structure. But erstwhile I started utilizing Kepter, and started bringing each the features of Finder into it, I realized really overmuch little my encephalon was reasoning astir immoderate discourse of a file. It's saved maine clip and past some. It releases that capacity successful my encephalon for thing much important.
