Sortstash - Organize Files by Context Across Dropbox, OneDrive & Local Drives

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Your files, organized by context. Not location.

Sortstash gathers your scattered files, across your Desktop, Dropbox, OneDrive, and more, into Scopes that stay up to date on their own. No importing, no syncing, no reorganizing your folders.

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14 days free. No account, no credit card.

See How It Works

Desktop

Report.docx

Notes.txt

Dropbox

Budget.xlsx

Proposal.pdf

OneDrive

Slides.pptx

Data.csv

Work This Week

Report.docx

Desktop

Budget.xlsx

Dropbox

Slides.pptx

OneDrive

Sound familiar?

Your files are scattered across your Desktop, Downloads folder, Dropbox, OneDrive, and that one external hard drive you use sometimes.

Every time you need something, you search the same five places. You know the file exists—you just made it last week—but finding it feels like archaeology.

What if you could see all your relevant files in one place, no matter where they're stored?

Meet Scopes

Scopes<br>are persistent collections that pull files from anywhere—local folders, cloud storage, external drives—into a single, unified list.

Unlike search, Scopes stay updated automatically. Create a "Work This Week" scope once, and it always shows your recent project files from every source.

No copying files. No reorganizing your folder structure. Just instant access to what you need, when you need it.

Desktop

Dropbox

OneDrive

Work This Week

Q4 Report.docx

Budget.xlsx

Meeting Notes.txt

How It Works

Connect Your Sources

Add your local drives, Dropbox, OneDrive—wherever your files live.

Create Scopes

Set up filters for what you need. Name it, define the rules, and watch your files appear.

Find Anything Instantly

Your Scopes update automatically. Open Sortstash and your files are already waiting.

Example: Create a "Work This Week" scope that automatically shows recent documents from all your project folders.

See It in Action

One window. Every file that matters, no matter where it lives.

A Sortstash Scope showing files gathered from a local folder, Dropbox, and OneDrive in one list.

A single Scope, pulling files from your Desktop, Dropbox, and OneDrive at once.

Sortstash browsing a source in column view with a markdown file open in the preview pane.

Browse a source in columns and preview files without leaving Sortstash.

The Sortstash command palette open, listing Scopes and actions you can jump to by typing.

Jump to any Scope or action straight from the keyboard.

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Why not just search?

Spotlight, Alfred, and DEVONthink are great at one thing: finding a file when you already know how to describe it. Sortstash is for the rest of the time.

Search and launchers

Spotlight, Alfred, DEVONthink

You start from scratch every time with a fresh query.

You have to remember the name, a keyword, or where the file lives.

Results are a one-shot list that disappears when you close the window.

Files stay scattered across every folder and cloud account.

Sortstash Scopes

Organized by context

You set up a Scope once and it is always there.

Files are grouped by what they are for, not where they live.

Scopes stay up to date on their own as files change.

Your files stay where they are, indexed in place with no import or sync.

Tom

Creator of Sortstash

Built for People Who Live in Documents

I spent thirty years in enterprise technology, most of it drowning in files.

You know the drill. The CEO asks about a number from "that presentation we discussed." You know you have it. But is it in OneDrive? Your laptop? That shared Dropbox folder the vendor set up? By the time you find it, the meeting has moved on.

I tried every search tool I could find. They all had the same problem: they made me think about where files lived instead of what I needed.

Sortstash is the tool I wanted to exist. It indexes files where they already are — no importing, no syncing — and lets you create persistent Scopes that organize by context, not location.

"Work from this week." "Client: Acme." "Home maintenance."

Click the Scope, find the file.

I built this for myself, and I use it on my own work every day. Turns out a lot of people have the same problem.

Your Files Stay Yours

You handle sensitive work. Sortstash is built so you never have to think twice about it.

No forced imports

Sortstash indexes your files where they already live, with no importing and no syncing. It never pulls them into a proprietary database or folder structure just to work.

Your files never reach us

Sortstash never sends your files or their contents to a Sortstash server. It reads them locally to build your Scopes, and only moves a file elsewhere when you tell it to.

No account required

There is no sign-up and no password. Buy it, run it, and start working. We do not build a profile of you.

No lock-in

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