Omaculate comes with thirteen ready-made recipes. Picking them meant leaving a few obvious ones out, and making the ones that stayed more careful than you might expect. These are the ones that didn’t make it, and the reasons.
No “Trash big files”
It sounds like the most useful recipe there is: find the files over a gigabyte that nobody has opened in a month and clear them out. An early version of the list had exactly that.
It went because of what big, untouched files usually are: interview recordings, research datasets, a client’s photo gallery, exhibits for a court case. Files nobody opens often, because they’re finished and important. A recipe that offers those for the Trash would be right about the size and wrong about the value.
To find what’s taking up space, the guide to finding large files in Downloads shows how with Finder. You decide what goes.
Zips go only when they’re unzipped
A zip in Downloads might be a spare copy of a folder you’ve already unzipped. It might also be the only copy of a client delivery, a dataset or a font licence.
So Trash zips already unzipped only matches a zip with its unzipped folder right beside it: “fonts.zip” next to “fonts”. A zip on its own is never matched, whatever its age.
Duplicates only when they’re exact
Browsers add “(1)” when you download a file twice. Trash duplicate downloads only matches a copy with the same content as the file beside it, like “manual (1).pdf” next to “manual.pdf”. A file that merely has a similar name isn’t a duplicate, and the original is never matched.
No renaming or tagging by default
None of the ready-made recipes renames or tags a file. They move files, or offer them for the Trash.
People find files by the names they already have. A recipe that renames “Q3 report.pdf” to “2026-10-14-docs.example.com-Q3 report.pdf” is tidy on paper and harder to search in practice. Tags have a similar problem: a red tag Oma picked can look like a warning.
Both are one tap away in the recipe editor if you want them. You can name files by date, by where they came from or by their original name, and tag with your own Finder tags.
The one exception is Rename unreadable documents, part of Grand Oma. It only touches documents whose names say nothing, like “IMG_4421.pdf” or “Scan 12 Mar.pdf”, and names them by what’s inside. That’s smart naming, which reads the document on your Mac. It requires macOS 26 and Apple Intelligence.
A month, not a week
Archive old downloads moves files that have been in Downloads for more than 30 days into Downloads/Archive. A week sounds tidier, but people come back to a download weeks later and expect it to be where they left it. Old app installers wait 30 days too.
“Invoice” isn’t enough, and “bill” is too much
Searching for “invoice” misses most real invoices: they arrive as INV-20931.pdf, Receipt-2841.pdf or Factura_0012.pdf. So Gather invoices and receipts looks for a longer list of names, in several languages.
“Bill” isn’t on that list, because it also matches “billboard.png”.
Everything stays in the folder it came from
Every ready-made recipe moves files into a folder inside the one they’re already in: Downloads/Archive, Desktop/Screenshots, Downloads/Invoices and Receipts. You can change the destination, but nobody has to pick a folder before trying a recipe, and nothing ends up somewhere you’d never look.
