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is there an app for monitoring folders that does the following...?

hivelan | Sep 7 2007

hi,
what i'd like is some software that would monitor the desktop and possibly other folders that I can specify and when it finds a new file (that i've just downloaded) asks me for a description of what that file is which it then adds to the files metadata.
and i'd also like it to start bothering me if the file remains there for longer that a specified period of time.

Does anything like this exist?

thanks

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