Orden

In your inbox

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Needs you

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Settings

Where it works

The folder Orden reads, and where the filed documents end up.

Inbox folder

Orden files whatever you drop in here.

Where Orden files

Pick how much of your Drive it is allowed to touch.

Inside one folder Everything goes in a single folder. Nothing else in your Drive is touched. Into my own folders Orden uses the folders you already keep, anywhere in your Drive.

Filing on its own

Whether Orden may move files without asking you first.

Orden reads your inbox on a schedule, so it is done before you look. This decides whether it may also move those files.

Ask me first Orden reads everything and moves nothing. Every file waits for you under Needs you. File on its own when it is sure enough Anything below the mark still waits for you. Nothing is ever deleted, and every move can be undone.

Reading & display

How much it reads, and how the lists look to you.

Write to me in

Summaries, reasons and new folder names use this, whatever language each document is in.

Look inside subfolders Sort files nested inside the inbox, not only the ones at the top. Colour files by kind Tints each icon so PDFs, spreadsheets and recordings are distinguishable at a glance. Turn off for a plain list.

Put dates on my Google Calendar Expiries, renewals and deadlines read off a document are written to a calendar of its own called Orden, which you can hide or delete in one action without touching your own entries. If it cannot create that calendar it falls back to your main one, and every event names the file it came from.

What comes next

Not built yet

Orden reads a folder and files what it finds. Everything below widens one of those two ends: where the documents come in, or what it is allowed to do once it has understood one.

Building

Calendar that stays in step

Today a date read off a document is written to the Orden calendar once. Next it keeps step both ways: a renewal that moves in the amended contract moves the event, a deleted file takes its dates with it, and an event you edit by hand is left alone.

Needs: a stored link from each event back to the document and the sentence that produced it, so a change can be traced rather than guessed.

Attachments straight from email

The invoice that arrives in your inbox is the one document that never reaches the folder Orden watches. An address of its own, so forwarding a message puts its attachments in the queue with the sender, subject and date already known, and the body read as context for where the file belongs.

Needs: the sender proved, not trusted. An address anyone can post to is an address anyone can file into your Drive with.

Later

Decisions that do more than file

Filing and renaming are the two safe things to do with an understood document. There are others: reply to the sender that a bill was received, flag a contract to somebody before it lapses, hand the figures to a script you already run. Each would be a named action you switch on one at a time, never a general licence to act.

Needs: the same ledger these already have. An action that leaves the Drive has to be reviewable before it runs and undoable after, or it does not ship.

Reading your files

In your inbox

✓

Needs you

What the archive says

Arriving on a rhythm

Dates ahead

What it came to

What Orden decided

What you have taught it

Every decision

Settings

Where it works

Filing on its own

Reading & display

What comes next

Calendar that stays in step

Attachments straight from email

Decisions that do more than file

Choose a folder