Build a Desktop File Organizer in 35 Lines of...

Your Downloads folder is a mess. Mine was too — 400+ files, zero organization. So I spent a Saturday afternoon writing a Python script that watches a folder and auto-sorts files into subfolders by type. 35 lines, no external libraries beyond watchdog, runs forever in the background. Here's the full weekend project. You'll have it running in under 30 minutes. Why Build This? Every developer I know has a chaotic Downloads folder. PDFs from 2019 sitting next to screenshots from yesterday. You could