wisort 0.2.4

A system to sort your files

wisort :magic_wand:

Your file-sorting wizard :mage: that manages your file magically :crystal_ball:

Requirements

• python >=3.14
• uv (heavily recommended)
• a UNIX OS

Installation

wisort is published on PyPi

# using uv (recommended)
uv tool install wisort

# or with pip
pip install wisort

if you want to just try out and run the project you can use uvx wisort. Make sure to copy the default config.json to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME(fallback to $HOME/.config).

Concept and features

wisort is supposed to be a file sorting cli. Below can be seen my ideas for the project even if they might not be fully implemented yet. To see the progress go read the ROADMAP It has different characters:

• apprentice
• magician (coming soon)
• witch
• dragon (coming soon)

These are different magical users so they clean your file system differently. The apprentice is unsure about his work so he leave the most things to you to manually handle (confirmations when deleting etc.). The magician works way more autonomously but is very calm and doesn't destroy anything. This means a lot of capabilties with a good amount of safety. The witch is a brazen sorcerer not afraid of destruction. She cleans your filesystem very very thoroughly.

(As of now magician and witch are not implemented)

The :sparkles: magic :sparkles:

• smart unzip: archives can be automatically unpacked before being moved. they get moved into a new folder or directly to the destination depending on the content
• file duplicate removal strategies
  • replace the (older) duplicate by symlink
  • matching exact contents
  • diffing contents
  • intentional duplicate recognition -> diffing file names
• auto-remove empty files
• automatic move conflict resolution when the programm wants to move a file somewhere where a file with the same name already exist it can handle that automatically

Config

Configuration is done through config.json file in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/wisort/

Example:

{
	"runes": {
		"images": ["png", "jpeg", "jpg"]
	},
	"libraries": {
		"pics": {
			"destination": "~/Pictures/",
			"filetypes": "@images",
			"flatten": true
		}
	},
	"orders": {
		"recurse": true,
		"honor_gitignore": true,
		"ignore_dotfiles": true
	},
	"args": {
		"quiet": true,
		"force": false
	}
}

"runes"

Runes are like a key-value store for your config file to create shorthands like above. This works with all filetypes supported by json as values.

"orders" - Specify wisort's behaviour

Order	Default	Description
"recurse"	true	Enables recursion through subdirectories of the target directory
"dedupe_strategy"	"portal"	Specifies how to resolve duplicates. "portal" replaces the duplicate files by symlinks to the original. "remove" deletes the duplicates.
"move_strategy"	"flatten"	By default this flattens out the file structure in the destination and doesn't preserve the file structure
"honor_gitignore"	true	This option specifies wether to ignore files as specified in the respective .gitignore files
"delete_empty_files	true	Wether to delete empty files on deduplication or not

"args" - Default overwrite for CLI arguments

Argument	Default	Description
"quiet"	false	Disable dialog and non critical messages
"force"	false	Overwrites move_conflict_strategy to remove
"verbose"	false	Shows more information

Usage

For the exact CLI usage do wisort --help