Articles

Ben Brooks at The Brooks Review gives a nice overview of Hazel while providing a rundown of his rules. He also mentions Hazel again in Some Great Little Mac Apps article. It's a great blog in general so I recommend giving it a gander.

Got a ScanSnap? Highlight the keywords in your scanned PDFs and let Hazel do the rest. Thanks for Brooks Duncan for this great tutorial. Also, check out his article on using Hazel with Evernote.

Joshua Johnson goes through the steps of installing Hazel and setting up a basic droplet.

Massive three part series on using Hazel to organize your downloaded media. Definitely worth checking out even if they spell organize with an "s" down there.

Rick Yaeger shows how he uses Hazel to keep his Desktop clean. His mom would be proud.

More Hazel and Dropbox goodness.

Shane Landrum goes step-by-step, demonstrating his workflow for archiving his photos using Hazel and even provides his ruleset.

Some neat tips for using Hazel with DropBox here, including remotely controlling your Mac!

Make sure to check the comments where I post a rule you can download to organize your crash logs.

A whole episode dedicated to Hazel! David and Kate go in-depth with their Hazel workflows. Many great examples and ideas here.

Pepa Cobos does a great screencast of Hazel in Spanish, demonstrating a good cross-section of Hazel's feature set.

Tim Scharner gives a nice little video introduction to Hazel in German.

Jonathan "Wolf" Rentzsch provides some downloable rules to archive files into folders by date.

Check out this nice little tutorial from MacTips with accompanying video showing how to set up a basic rule in Hazel.

David Sparks shows how he uses Hazel to sort his scanned in bills. He goes step-by-step, showing how to incorporate file dates into the file names and folders.

The folks at Woopid have done their own set of Hazel tutorial videos. Neat.

Great walkthrough of Hazel in French. Check the site for tutorials of other products as well.

Don McAllister gives a video tour of Hazel's main features.

Gina Trapani gives a run-through of Hazel's features and provides a few rules to boot.

Ethan Schoonover at Kinkless has an excellent screencast showing how he uses Hazel to organize his files and makes his ruleset available for download. Make sure to check out his whole series on reducing Desktop clutter.

Interview with yours truly.

Adam Engst shows how to use Hazel to clean out your BBEdit backups folder.

Grover Saunders describes how he incorporates Hazel into James Madison University's video recording workflow.

Press

Dan Miller gives Hazel 4.5 out of 5 mice. Hazel also makes their 2010 Mac Gems of the Year list.

Hazel makes TJ Luoma's list of his best of 2010.

Hazel earns a spot at #23 in Giles Turnbull's 50 Mac Essentials list.

It's a big list but Hazel clocks in there...somewhere...just do a "Find".

Hazel: Better than painting speed stripes on the side of your computer (but there's no reason why you can't do both!).

Hazel gets the spotlight here on this French site. "Hazel...c'estt une perle absolue." [Hazel...is a absolute gem.]

Hazel makes the list.

Susie Ochs runs through 7 quick things you can do with Hazel.

Adam Pash shows how to automatically import your songs into iTunes with Hazel thrown into the mix.

Hazel gets quite the shoutout from Merlin Mann in this episode.

Hazel is mentioned twice in Joe Kissell's review of apps to help reduce your hard drive clutter.

Hazel makes the list, which also includes many other great apps.

In this installment of a new podcast featuring Katie Floyd and David Sparks, they go over different solutions for reducing the amount of paper in their lives. David talks about how he uses Hazel to sort his scanned-in bills.

Hazel is featured under the "Self-cleaning folders" section.

In a sea of app uninstallers, Gina Trapani shows her preference for Hazel's App Sweep function.

Hazel gets a mention in Mac Geek Gab podcast #201, Dave Hamilton raves about it as he rediscovers it in #280 and a user sends in his workflow for organizing his bills in #289. Hazel is also featured in their Monday's Mac Gadget (May 18th, 2009) column.

Craig Grannell reviews Hazel (pg. 103) and gives it their MacFormat Choice Award (5 stars)! The magazine also features a two page tutorial (pg. 64).

Hazel is reviewed in this podcast episode. You can also view the text of the review here.

Franke De Graeve covers Hazel in his wonderful podcast highlighting the best in Mac apps.

Hazel is featured in the "Hot Stuff" section.

Rob Griffiths mentions Hazel in the "Productivity Boosters" section.

Chris Thomson includes Hazel in his list of essential apps.

Michael Mistretta's video review.

For those upgrading to Leopard, remember to reinstall Hazel.

Jeff Powell talks about Hazel 2.

Rick Yaeger of MacMerc talks about Hazel on Leo Laporte's The Lab TV show.

Merlin talks about a lot of great apps in this segment, including Hazel. Hazel is brought up again on Leo's Mac Break Weekly audio podcast.

5/5 mice

"Hazel is one of those rare pieces of software…that feels like it's filling a gaping feature void I didn't even know Apple left in Mac OS X"

"Hazel almost instantly became some of the best $16 I've ever spent on my computing."

"I honestly believe Hazel is a killer - nay: essential - app…[I] can't even begin to guess at how much time it's saved me."

"It's very powerful, but also very easy to use and very unobtrusive. "

"…quite a useful addition to anyone's toolbox."

"This application is gold I tell you, gold."

"I've been tinkering with Hazel quite a bit in the past couple weeks, and have really seen moments of brilliance in it. "

"The only thing that's missing is for it to fix you up a nice cup of tea while you are away from the computer."

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