Introducing Upload Better (name subject to change)
Check it out on chrome web store
The main feature is that whenever you click an "Upload" or "Choose File" button, your file manager will not open, instead, a small popup will automatically appear next to it. And instead of needing to open your file manager, the popup gives you immediate access to 3 things: your Clipboard, your Pinned Files, and your Recent Downloads. It looks like this:
I mainly built this because of screenshots. Whenever you take a screenshot with the Snipping Tool, it’s saved to your clipboard. But if you want to upload it, you have waste time opening the tool, save the file to your desktop, find it, and then upload it. That takes too long. I am very lazy and I hate wasting time, so naturally, I spent a few weeks building an entire extension just to save a few seconds.
It also handles two other things that annoyed me about file uploading, the first one is whenever I want to upload something that I just downloaded, I would have to go through the file manager, then go to the downloaded folder, and then look for the file I just downloaded. But with my extension, your most recent downloads show up right in the popup, I like that a lot.
The second one is being able to pin files, I find this feature useful for things like resumes, transcripts, and profile pictures, these kind of files for me just tend to disapear into my downloads folder after a while and impossible to find. If I just pin them then I can have instant access everytime.
I Need Your Help
If you are an artist or graphics designer I am willing to pay market rate for promotional graphics/banners that will be displayed on the chrome web store page, as well as a better name and logo, please contact me and we can talk more about this!!!
This extension is still very early (alpha/pre-beta stage). I have already found a ton of bugs that I am working through. If you find a bug please let me know!
The extension is also completely untested for MacOS because I don't have a Mac, so it will probably have a ton of bugs if you are using a Mac, sorry for that.
The Future
I have a few features planned for the next version:
- Google Drive and Dropbox Integration: I want to make it so you can paste a Drive link into the popup, and it will automatically upload the file for you.
- A Control Panel: Right now, the pin feature is a bit clunky. I am working on a dedicated control panel and a dashboard where you can easily select files to be pinned and manage the extension settings.