Rules
Download Rules
Create rules for websites, file kinds, extensions, or filename patterns so repeat downloads follow repeat behavior.
Teach Downloads Butler your habits once. It will not ask existential follow-up questions.
Rule sentence
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.
How Downloads Butler handles it
- 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.
- Rules sit below one-time choices and active sessions, so temporary decisions can still win when needed.
What you control
- Match by current site, website, kind, extension, or name.
- Choose destination and naming behavior.
- 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.
Practical examples
- GitHub ZIP files can always go to Dev / Archives.
- Invoice PDFs can go to Finance.
- Images from a design site can go to Assets / Inspiration.
Local note
Rules are stored locally in Chrome storage. They are not synced to a Downloads Butler account because there is no account to begin with.
Related
Other tidy drawers to open.
One-time
One-Time Downloads
Handle the next download differently without changing your normal Sorting, Renaming, or Rules setup.
Sessions
Download Sessions
Start a focused mode when you are collecting files for one task, then stop it when the task is done.
Log
Download Log
See recent download decisions, where files went, and why Downloads Butler handled them that way.