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I want to file my bills in a folder that is prefixed with the year. For example, move my electric bill to a folder "2018 electric bill". I can only see how to move a file to a folder name that is a constant literal string. I'd like to use a "contains match" in the "to folder" of the Move action. Can I do that? Or is there another way to achieve this dynamic folder name move? (I suppose I could move the file using a script, but that feels like a workaround.)

"Sort into subfolder" takes a pattern, so you should be able to prepend the year to it. I'm not quite sure where you are running into problems with this. Can you elaborate?

It looks like sort into subfolders will only move files into subfolders of the monitored folder. Does that mean if I monitor Downloads but want to move to ~/Documents/Bills/2018 Electric, that I have to use two rules?

You can move the file then sort into subfolder from there.

I found this MacSparky article that shows rename, move to folder, move to subfolder all in a single rule.

https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2009/6/3 ... hazel.html