Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Add option to change subdirectory from extension's dropdown menu #849

Open
mjrawesome opened this issue Dec 28, 2021 · 2 comments
Open

Add option to change subdirectory from extension's dropdown menu #849

mjrawesome opened this issue Dec 28, 2021 · 2 comments

Comments

@mjrawesome
Copy link

@mjrawesome mjrawesome commented Dec 28, 2021

Coming from this bug report, I'd like to make a suggestion / "request a feature".

I'd appreciate an option to specify the subdirectory directly from the extension's dropdown menu. Having to create a separate template in the extension's options every time you want to save your webpages into a new, separate subfolder/project, seems a little cumbersome.

I'm not sure it'd be possible to make it so that text can be input into a field inside the dropdown menu itself, but perhaps a very simple dialog could pop up to allow this. It seems to me that whenever you're saving more than a few webpages, it'd be better if you could easily/quickly specify a subdirectory to avoid a mess in the download directory as well as to help with the organisation of different projects. By default (when no subdirectory is specified), the extension should save to the default, main download directory.

@mjrawesome mjrawesome changed the title Add option to change save subdirectory from extension options Add option to change subdirectory from extension's dropdown menu Dec 28, 2021
@gildas-lormeau
Copy link
Owner

@gildas-lormeau gildas-lormeau commented Dec 28, 2021

Out of curiosity, did you try to create separate profiles for each subfolder in the options page? You can then use the correct profile via the context menu.

@mjrawesome
Copy link
Author

@mjrawesome mjrawesome commented Dec 29, 2021

I have tried that, yes. Profiles work well for webpages that I save regularly, since some of them need a different template expression for the filename to make sense (like {page-heading}, {page-title}, etc.).

However, the thing is that, like most people, I don't work on a small, fixed set of predefined "projects" all the time, which I could just set up in advance. For example, today I want to look up apple pie recipes and save those (webpages) into an "apple pie recipes" subfolder, then I want to look up mods for Doom II and save the instructions (webpages) for those mods into a "Doom II. Mods (instructions)" subfolder; next day I want to save some press articles about the Nordstream II pipeline...

Perhaps one "workaround" is to set the default profile to save into the same, one subfolder, say, "singlefile/{day-locale}.{month-locale}.{year-locale}.html". Once I'm done with a particular "project", I could rename that "singlefile" subfolder in my main downloads folder into something else and then repeat for subsequent "projects"... It just seems to me that the way "DownloadThemAll" or "Simple mass downloader" implement this, where you can specify the download subfolder quickly/easily at the time of download by just typing it into a field, is more convenient/natural.

Of course, all this is only a suggestion.

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment
Labels
None yet
Projects
None yet
Linked pull requests

Successfully merging a pull request may close this issue.

None yet
2 participants