I love SafariStand. I love SafariStand's ability to organize downloads by date. I hate trying to navigate to the current day's download directory via the terminal. I typically don't delete downloads very often so my Downloads folder tends to get cluttered with a bunch of folders titled '2009-03-11', '2009-03-15', etc.
If you're a heavy terminal user, it can be a pain to get into the current day's folder because tab-completion always stops at '2009-03-' if your folder spans just one month, '2009-' if it spans multiple months, or '200' if it spans multiple years.
I decided to rectify this situation by making an alias to the date command to generate the current date in the same format. It's pretty simple:
In your .profile or .bash_profile file in your home directory simply add the line:
alias today='date "+%Y-%m-%d"'
Then when you're in the terminal, go to your downloads folder and type
cd `today` (note the back quotes around today) (the back quote is shift-tilde)
and it will automatically generate the proper date string and take you right into your folder.
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