Many of us are doing more and more of our Internet white plague — read websites , RSS feeds , Twitter , Facebook , and more — on wandering devices . It ’s often more convenient than using your desktop computer , because you have your iPhone , iPad , iPod contact , or laptop with you when you ’re out and about ( or even just when sitting on the lounge ) .
But what do you do when you come across something you require todownload ? Maybe you find a cool new Mac app you want to try out , or perhaps someone mail you a link to an archive of photos . With a few exceptions , iOS devices do n’t have you download file . And even if you ’ve got a laptop , sometimes you do n’t need to download a lot of data onto its small drive , or you require to download swelled files using your background Mac ’s rapid connection connection .
In the past , I ’ve handled these situations by email myself the universal resource locator to a download or webpage . When I got back to my iMac , I then used the link in that electronic mail message to download the data . But lately I ’ve been using a clever utility calledNoteTote(Mac App Store liaison ) to download files to my screen background Mac no matter where I am when I come across the link .
NoteTote requires a free or paid account withSimplenote , the on-line note - syncing servicing . The first meter you found NoteTote , you access to your Simplenote account — that ’s the entire setup process . NoteTote automatically creates a young Simplenote note of hand call NoteTote_Downloads , and it create a unexampled NoteTote folder turn up , by default , in your home folder ’s Downloads folder ( ~/Downloads ) .
Whenever NoteTote is prevail , it periodically checks the NoteTote_Downloads file for newfangled URLs . ( The default interval is 10 minutes , though you’re able to change this . ) Whenever NoteTote determine a raw URL , as long as that URL point to a in public accessible data file , NoteTote downloads that file cabinet to its downloads folder and removes the URL from the NoteTote_Downloads note ; reckon on your setting , NoteTote can also add the universal resource locator to a logarithm file cabinet ring Note_Tote_Download_Log .
contribute URL to the NoteTote_Downloads file is simple : you could use the Simplenote website on any platform , a Mac app such as Justnotes orNotational Velocity , or the Simplenote iOS app . So , for object lesson , if a trafficker netmail me a nexus to some vast product images , or if Apple releases a Brobdingnagian software program update , I just afford the aforementioned Simplenote app on my iPhone , and then paste the download URL into the NoteTote_Downloads note . When I get domicile , the file has already been download to my iMac .
NoteTote ’s only interface is a systemwide menu that gives you quick entree to your downloads folder , your downloads note ( on the Simplenote website ) , and the program ’s limited preferences . you’re able to also use the carte to force a universal resource locator hitch and to toggle NoteTote ’s uniform resource locator checking off and on .
you may use NoteTote in combining with other Mac tools to automate download processing . For example , if you change the location of NoteTote ’s download folder to a folder inside Dropbox , your downloads are sync to all your Dropbox - fit out computers . The developer furnish a pageboy withother example workflows , including usingHazelto mechanically move download single file . ( The developer also suggests using Growl with NoteTote , but in my examination , the Growl option in NoteTote ’s predilection was disenable . )
NoteTote work well , and as someone who downloads stuff on a daily basis , it ’s a welcome tool that makes it easier to do so , no matter where I am .
( NoteTote can be purchased only from the Mac App Store , but the developer offers a utilisation - limited trial variant on the NoteTote site . )
