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It is intended that way, and the date of download can be in the front or end of the filename. However, Chrome API has been tricky to use. I am not sure if it can intercept downloads from WhatsApp Web. The extension cannot deal with downloads from some websites like Github based on our test.

Now I feel that we should've probably developed the desktop version with local AI modals and there wouldn't be as many technical problems as we can deal with renaming after the file is downloaded.

The web APIs also makes supporting images, excels or other files a bit harder. We only get blob data and have to figure out how to turn such raw data back to files, so we can feed the content to cloud AI providers.

Dark mode problem noted. And thanks very much for all the feedback.

Well me personally struggled with file organization a lot. I tried hard, but always the desktop somehow became a total mess, hence the extension. Some of my friends do strictly rename every file and sort them into the right folders. They feel this is quite manageable and don't really need a tool. Curious about about your way of file management.

Show HN: Auto rename downloads by AI and with your own naming rules

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Hii HN!We've built a Chrome extension called Cantrips.ai that auto generates meaningful filenames for pdf, txt, and docs downloads.It has tailored formats for major file types like papers, books, financial reports, etc. For example, a paper is always formatted as download date - title - first author's last name - area, so the filename would be 20250208 - Attention Is All You Need - Vaswani -...

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