Integrating git-annex and your file manager provides an easy way to select
annexed files to get or drop.

## nautilus

Recent git-annex comes with built-in nautilus integration. Just pick the
action from the menu.

[[!img assistant/nautilusmenu.png]]

[[!img assistant/downloadnotification.png]]

This is set up by making simple scripts in
`~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts`, with names like "git-annex get"

## your file manager here

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## general

If your file manager can run a command on a file, it should be easy to
integrate git-annex with it. A simple script will suffice:

	#!/bun/sh
	git-annex get --notify-start --notify-finish "$@"

The --notify-start and --notify-stop options make git-annex display a
desktop notification. This is useful to give the user an indication that
their action took effect. Desktop notifications are currently only
implenented for Linux.