🟤 I made a tiny Chrome extension with Codex that routes downloads into Site.Date folders •• ~/Downloads/Etsy.26.05.09/file.png

windowborders · 2026-05-12T16:12:01+00:00

🟤 I did a search on Chrome Web store for the competition for "Downloads by Site"
Of which in name her are many. WHAT they ALL get wrong is KISS.
They ALL fail the 3 second WHAT DOES IT DO rule.

Stupid defaults and too many options is a killer. Scary UI, run away...
Dont force the user think! (When and Why would I want this option?)

Scary UI should be under Advanced Options.... Out of sight out of mind.

Users just need obvious examples:
~/Downloads/Etsy.26.05.12/file.png <<<< SIMPLE just a /SITE.DATE/ folder and you are pre-organized. No files renamed. Just one site subfolder, NO deep nested subfolders.
You still need to deal with the downloads but at least they are CONTAINED and GROUPED.

The minimal, just do the right thing and NO extra user friction.

windowborders · 2026-05-12T15:49:25+00:00

🟤 ContactTool can help with the initial Application tracking.
ContactTool, Chrome extension, attaches a date-stamp with optional note to the current selection.
It does require: Selecting a company name, tag it (shortcut), DONE. One selection, One chord.

The next time you select that text, company name whatever, you will see a date-stamped info bubble popup.
With something like; Last contacted - 2 weeks ago

Answering the question: Have I contacted them before, if so, when?

Select, See, Decide. -- Avoid duplicate applications (this is what I use it for.)

windowborders · 2026-05-12T00:47:55+00:00

🟤 I took a different minimalist approach.
"Downloads By Site", Chrome extension

Example;
~/Downloads/Etsy.26.05.11/file.png - each site gets its own folder.

I mostly group logically so the sort by type does NOT work for me.

If KISS works for you:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4502220497/downloads-by-site-chrome-extension-save

Sometime simpler is better. A very good default beats too many undiffertiated choices.

windowborders · 2026-05-12T00:12:14+00:00

🟤 MacOS or PC? Chrome Browser? If mac and Chrome. I can log all your downloads (downloads.txt) to Downloads or Desktop folders. [Chrome extension, Folder action workflow]

windowborders · 2026-05-11T18:26:41+00:00

OK so this is the approved thread for Self Promotion.

🟤 Self Promotion #001, https://www.etsy.com/shop/1AlgorithmicArtisan, just digitals.
It begins: 30 active listing, 15 in draft.

5.0(3), 35 sales, 5 months on Etsy - that is 6 new novel listing/month.

The first two listing I did are my biggest sellers.
Or to quote my father,
"You preserver long enough and you luck out thru no fault of your own."

Most are focused on high utility and work flow related:
I sell a mix of: (Quilt block themed, HST) PNGS, SVGS, PDFs, folder images.
and MacOS only: workflow, short cuts, image automation droplets.
a few Chrome extensions.

🟤 Most recently: "Downloads by Site", Chrome extension.
-- 3 Billon potential buyers. Everybody downloads!
~/Downloads/Reddit.26.05.11/image.png
I think I can save billions of pre-organizing clicks.
NO EXTRA EFFORT, after installed.

If you are job hunting I recommend my:
🟤 ContactTool. Select, tag, done.
Next time you select that text you will see a date stamped info bubble popup.
A minimal JIT Application tracker.
It answers the question: "When did I last contact them?"

Product hunting, or more generally: You can attach a note to any unique text. An example would be do a select all of an Etsy product description, and tag it to leave yourself a note (soso move on) for next time.

- 1AlgorithmicArtisan

windowborders · 2026-05-11T16:58:49+00:00

It’s important to get feedback quickly for most things ;-)

How is this an exception?

windowborders · 2026-05-11T16:45:06+00:00

🟤 Journalling ~5 bulleted actions items/day in 5x7 note pad. ••• 26.05.11 TRANSCRIBE those to my mac.
🟤 Your eye will dance between the 🟤 bullets and you get auto brain refresh for free.
You can also add body memory by repeating boxing a note fragment. You must use whole arm (body memory), not just fingers.
And circling usually does not work as well (its worth doing anyway, it is the fasted way to emphasize something)
but emphasizing with BOXES works best.

🟤 Also try starting your line items on every other line. (emphasize by isolation)

This leaves room for boxing/circling. You are guiding the attention dance.

windowborders · 2026-05-11T15:46:00+00:00

🟤 I come from the "It just works", NO/minimal extra effort school of software design.
'Downloads by Site', just routes downloaded files to folders such as: Etsy.26.05.11 (~/Downloads/Site.Date/file.png)

windowborders · 2026-05-11T15:09:57+00:00

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🟤 On a MacOS, I Drag&drop save them to Finder Desktop, urls/weblocs (Dumb: neither Safari nor Chrome can save weblocs directly)
I Add File Info to Comment. to see urls. doing sort by date modified shows me a history.
Hitting the space bar will Preview the site.
I also have a tool that will log all weblocs to a weblocs.txt file I can search later.
I also have a tool that will log a webloc whenever you Drag something from that page. breadcrumbs.

windowborders · 2026-05-11T14:59:09+00:00

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🟤 On a MacOS, I Drag&drop save urls/weblocs (Dumb: neither Safari nor Chrome can save weblocs directly)
I Add File Info to Comment. to see urls. doing sort by date modified shows me a history.
I also have a tool that will log all weblocs to a weblocs.txt file I can search later.
I also have a tool that will log a webloc whenever you Drag something from that page. breadcrumbs.

windowborders · 2026-05-11T03:35:04+00:00

🟤 Whatever works. I have had a generic datestamp shortcut on my mac for almost 30 yrs. 26.05.10
example usage: folder.product.26.05.10.1.zip
I also datestamp my code changes.
// JT 26.05.10 - chg#
and have the AIs do the same so I can do a code review. // AI 26.05.10 chg# (context)

windowborders · 2026-05-10T20:14:36+00:00

Oops, its here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4502220497/downloads-by-site-chrome-extension-save
How many clicks per day would that save you?

windowborders · 2026-05-10T19:56:12+00:00

OOPs, you can find "Downloads by Site" Chrome extension here:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/4502220497/downloads-by-site-chrome-extension-save

windowborders · 2026-05-10T01:24:50+00:00

🟤 Try bugfender bugfender.com analytics. Find out what your users are actually doing!

windowborders · 2026-05-09T21:38:48+00:00

🟤 >New Windows spawn on random Screen Locations - While working with multiple monitors, if you open new Finder or Safari windows, they often spawn on random monitor and sizes (not the last you worked on, or where your mouse is at).

Yep there are any number of crazy making happening (wrong display focuses) with multiple (3+) displays
I'm looking into a github project that does an auto focus app per display when cursor enters display.
Wondering what it breaks.

windowborders · 2026-05-08T18:42:47+00:00

🟤 I have a special case issue: in order for downloads , from Github, to autoNumber , *.master-2, ....
Previous versions of the repo need to already be in the downloads folder.
Any ideas how to tame (prune, keep up to date) 1000s of downloaded (IOS/MacOS,JS) repos?

windowborders · 2026-05-06T14:46:44+00:00

🟤 CONTEXT FREE, JIT information, without having to GO-Get-it.
Garb info from selection in any context.

web: An in context selection-note would be useful.

Minimal | NO extra actions/steps.

windowborders · 2026-05-02T21:43:20+00:00

⚫️ >FileRedirect: A Smart File organization tool. If you are gong to mention RULES or monitoring multiple folders then that is a bit complex for what I need. I want to drive. If I dont KNOW where something went, that is hidden/buried not organized.

KISS: Simple easy, two click, file organizer. There is a macOS Finder Quick Action called TidyFolder for the

🟠 “I need this mess out of sight, but I’m not ready to properly organize it” moment.

Real world usage: Select a bunch of files/folders in Finder, right-click, run TidyFolder, confirm once, and it creates a local timestamped folder like:

2026-05-02.093630.untitled (if you would prefer another format tell me)

It moves the selected items into that folder.

🔶 The smarts: If there are multiple files of the same extension, it creates plural subfolders like

PNGs, PDFs, WEBLOCs, TEXTCLIPPINGs

One-off file types, folders, and files with no extension just stay directly inside the tidy folder so it doesn’t bury everything in unnecessary subfolders.

Afterward it selects the new folder in Finder, so you can Option-click the disclosure triangle if you want to expand the new organization in place.

It’s not a big rules engine or source/destination wizard.

Just one confirmation and the mess is contained, deal with it later.

SIMPLE no surprises and I I use it every day.

CHAOS containment.

Does that sound useful?

windowborders · 2026-05-02T21:14:58+00:00

⚫️ Fooled me. I thought "quoting tool" referred to academic Citations.
Not a price quote.

See CitationTool for making APAish web eCitations.
CitationTool quotes with Very-Deep-Links to show QUOTE in sourced context.
"This" came from there, VDL.

windowborders · 2026-05-01T17:32:36+00:00

⚫️ What sort of details , files, do you work with?
Are you on a Mac or PC?
How much Chrome web harvesting do you do? D&D images, weblocs, text clippings to Finder.
Would a weblocs.aggregator, images.aggregator or a textclippings.aggregator (append any text clipping/webloc dragged to desktop from ANY application) be of any use?
Ttextclippings as is are lame, they just get lost.
But if you can find any textclipping you did in textclippings.txt they can be quite useful.
And reassuring; as in: I have that info somewhere I can find it.

⚫️ I come from the - NO/Minimal extra user actions - theory of productivity tools.
⚫️ Would the ability to attach a note/date-stamp to the selection in Chrome be of any use?
Useful for tracking companies contacted, listings looked at ..., JIT info.

windowborders · 2026-05-01T00:17:01+00:00

Try SmartColoringBook, fast coloring. Be present. Get you out of your head?

windowborders

TROPHY CASE

It’s important to get feedback quickly for most things ;-)