Rules

Download Rules

Create rules for websites, file kinds, extensions, or filename patterns, with active-rule checks that keep contradictory rules from running together.

Teach Downloads Butler your habits once. It will not ask existential follow-up questions.

Rule sentence

Whensource is GitHubandtype is ZIPsave toDev / Archives

Rule health

Active · no conflicts

The problem

Some downloads happen again and again. If you keep making the same filing decision, that is not productivity. That is a tiny unpaid internship.

Rules match useful conditions such as website/source, extension, file kind, filename text, or confidence.
Matching rules can move files, rename files, move and rename, ask, or ignore depending on the setup.
Enabled rules are checked for conflicts, so contradictory saved rules can exist without both being active at the same time.
Rules sit below one-time choices and active sessions, so temporary decisions can still win when needed.

Match by current site, website, kind, extension, or name.
Choose destination and naming behavior.
See whether a saved rule is active, paused, disabled, or blocked by another enabled rule.
Use rules for repeat cases instead of overloading the default Sorting setup.
Pause or edit saved rules when your folder habits evolve. Personal growth, but for ZIP files.

Rules are stored locally in Chrome storage. They are not synced to a Downloads Butler account because there is no account to begin with.

One-time

Handle the next download differently without changing your normal Sorting, Renaming, or Rules setup.

Sessions

Start a focused mode when you are collecting files for one task, then restore ordinary rules when the session ends.

Log

See recent download decisions, where files went, and why Downloads Butler handled them that way.