Media folder
Local ProductivityThe one folder your automations can take pictures and video from.
Pick a folder and your automations can work with what's inside it: resize a photo, pull a frame out of a video, send a file to an API. Steps that handle files read from here and nowhere else.
Nothing is indexed and nothing is uploaded. This is a permission, not a connection: it just tells Halo which folder your automations are allowed to open.
Capabilities
What Halo does with it
- Lets file steps in your automations read from this folder
- Files an automation makes are kept separately and cleaned up on their own
- Nothing outside this folder can be opened, even by an automation you imported
How it connects
Built into your Mac.
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Nothing to sign in to
Halo works with Media folder through the same built-in macOS capabilities Apple's own apps use. There's no account to connect and no key to store.
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macOS asks first
The first time Halo needs access, macOS shows its own permission prompt. You decide, and you can revoke it any time in System Settings.
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Nothing leaves your Mac
Reading, writing, and understanding all happen on your device. There is no server involved, not even ours.
What stays private
A permission, not an index. Halo reads a file only when an automation you built asks it to, only from the folder you pick here, and never uploads anything unless a step you added says to.