HushDown organises your downloads by the work you're doing, not by file type. Tell it what you're working on, and every download goes into that project's folder with a clear, numbered name and an automatic sources list. Complete the steps below to get the most out of it.
Without pinning, HushDown stays hidden; you'd have to open the 𧩠menu every time.
Find the 𧩠icon on the right side of Chrome's address bar and click it to open the extension list.
Locate HushDown in the list.
Click the π pin icon next to HushDown. It will now appear in your toolbar.
Notifications are optional and off by default. If you want a notice when a download finishes, tick "Notify me when a download finishes" in the HushDown popup; on Windows, Chrome also needs permission to show notifications.
Press Windows + I or open Settings from the Start menu.
Go to System, then select Notifications.
Find Google Chrome in the app list and set notifications to On.
To see thumbnails of downloaded images in the history list (and in notifications, if you turned them on), grant the extension access to local files.
Type chrome://extensions in the address bar.
Click the Details button on the HushDown card.
Scroll down and toggle Allow access to file URLs on.
Say what you're working on once; HushDown files every download for it. Good for a student collecting images, PDFs and notes from many sites for an assignment, or anyone gathering files for a project or client.
Type a project name in the popup, for example Biology Essay, and press Start. Recent projects appear as chips for one-click restart. Finish ends the project.
While a project is active, every download goes to Downloads/Biology Essay/ as biology-essay_001_mitochondrion.png, biology-essay_002_week4-notes.pdf and so on. The number keeps the order you collected things in.
A useful file name is kept but tidied (Week4 Notes.pdf β week4-notes.pdf). Junk names like image931.png or download (3) are replaced with the page's topic: a file from wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrion becomes mitochondrion.
Each project folder gets _sources.txt listing every file's number, source page, file URL and access date. It updates after each download. The popup can also copy the list (Copy sources) and open the folder.
Put your tabs in a named Chrome tab group and downloads from them go to a folder with the group's name β no popup needed. A named group takes priority over the popup project; you can switch this off.
The popup lists the last 200 downloads with image thumbnails, each tagged with its project. Search by file or project name, click to open, or use Γ to remove a row (the file is not deleted).
<topic>_<yyMMdd-HHmmss>, for example mitochondrion_261012-140305.png. If the tab is in a named tab group, the group is used as the project._sources.txt (English), _kaynaklar.txt (Turkish) or _ζ₯ζΊ.txt (Chinese). It is rewritten after each download and does not appear in Chrome's download list. Copy sources in the popup copies the same list to the clipboard.chrome://settings/downloads in the address bar and change the Location. HushDown always saves files (and project folders) inside Chrome's current default download folder.HushDown is an experimental digital project by Hidroteknik. It is free and open source, built for students and anyone who collects files from many sites for a project or client. There are no servers, accounts or ads, and nothing is uploaded: everything stays in your browser and your Downloads folder.
Developer: Alper Alyaz on behalf of Hidroteknik
Questions, feedback, and suggestions: hushdown@hidroteknik.com.tr
Source code: github.com/alperalyaz/hushdown