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Downloads Menu

Quickly access, search, and insert your recent downloads.

The Downloads Menu is a dedicated Magic Menu for your recent downloads. It watches your Downloads folder, extracts provenance where available, and lets you paste file paths or open locations instantly.

Downloads Magic Menu overlay popup

Opening

  • Press Ctrl+Shift+D from anywhere (default, DEFAULT_DOWNLOADS_SHORTCUT). Customize under Settings → Expansion & Shortcuts → Global Shortcuts.
  • Also shown as Downloads Menu global shortcut in Settings → Sync & Clipboard → Downloads Menu.

What It Does

  • Folder Path: Configure via Settings → Sync & Clipboard → Downloads Folder Path (default ~/Downloads, env DOWNLOADS_PATH). Browse or Reset to default.
  • Cache: Recent downloads are cached locally; refresh via refresh_downloads_cache_from_settings or fetch_downloads.
  • Actions: copy_downloaded_path (copy path), open_downloaded_location (reveal in Explorer), insert_downloaded_file (insert via snippet).

Tips

  • The menu shows file name, size, and timestamp. Provenance origin URL (if extracted on supported platforms) is shown where available.
  • Ignored filenames (e.g. .crdownload, ~ temp files) are filtered by is_ignored_filename.
Related: File-attachment snippets via Open with → Snipset use the same file-type registrations as the Downloads Menu. See Content Types.
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