---
title: "Using Gemini-CLI and MCP server to organize my dropbox"
date: 2025-08-31
author: "haopengzhan"
category: "Tech"
tags: ["AI Era", "Dropbox", "Gemini", "LLM", "Productivity", "k8s"]
excerpt: "I think many people face the same dilemma I did: Dropbox fills up with thousands of disorganized files. Here is how I leveraged Gemini-CLI and Model Context Protocol to automate organization."
cover: images/cover.svg
lang: en
---

I think many people face the same dilemma I did: years of accumulated receipts, research papers, camera uploads, and archives scattered across folders.

When managing workloads in modern infrastructure, we treat our nodes cleanly with a streamlined **container image** deployed across clusters. But our personal storage often looks like a monolithic legacy system.

## The Problem with Cloud Storage

Cloud storage services like Dropbox offer immense space, but search and organization remain rudimentary. You often remember *concepts* rather than filenames:

- "That invoice from AWS last quarter"
- "The PDF paper on distributed consensus"
- "A screenshot of my terminal settings"

## Introducing MCP (Model Context Protocol)

The Model Context Protocol connects LLMs with local or remote toolsets. By creating an MCP server for Dropbox, we expose simple tools:

```bash
# Running the MCP server locally or in a container
npx -y @modelcontextprotocol/server-dropbox
```

And in Python:

```python
import dropbox

def list_unorganized_files(dbx, path="/Inbox"):
    res = dbx.files_list_folder(path)
    return [entry.name for entry in res.entries]
```

## Results and Workflow

Once configured, Gemini can inspect file headers, categorize documents into appropriate directories, and even rename messy receipts into normalized ISO dates (`YYYY-MM-DD-merchant-amount.pdf`).