#Instal the new CleanShot X mac

It is a Ruby-based action that will allow you to rename a file before it is moved to the folder you specify when installing the action. The Dropzone action I created is called “Rename and Move Files” - it is listed in the third-party actions on the Aptonic website. Rather than inserting a link for the currently selected image file in Path Finder, a link for the last updated image in the current year’s image folder is inserted.In my text editor, insert a special Markdown image link, to be processed by Jekyll.The Dropzone action allows me to rename the screenshot as it is dragged in.Drag the on screen floating thumbnail of the screenshot displayed by Cleanshot to a special action in Dropzone.My revised workflow now generally focuses on preparing and inserting screenshots as I go, and foregoes the need to switch in and out of Path Finder. I finally got round to doing this over the course of the last few weeks. But, this wasn’t ideal, and I added it as something to come back to on my to do list to finish this off. This changed my workflow a little further in that I generally switched to adding in the images at the end of my writing so that I could just bulk process them, at the end - an approach I often take when writing blog posts for my day job at my work PC.

That meant that I could simply add an entry for the current year’s images and have that as a destination I could then drag screenshots to. One of the processing options that Dropzone provides is to move files to a particular folder location. I’ve often used it for moving files around, hanging onto images I want to drag into a document, or even for automatically installing application downloads.

#Instal the new CleanShot X mac

It is a Mac utility application that allows you to drag and drop content such as text and files onto a menu area ‘drop zone’, and have that content held there as though putting it on a shelf for later use, or have it immediately processed. I have been a user of Dropzone for many years.

I actually do this using Keyboard Maestro and some AppleScript to insert the link for the selected image file in Path Finder.Īfter a while, I realised that most the time I was just generating and inserting one screenshot at a time, and I figured I could streamline this a little.

In my text editor (usually Sublime Text 3 for blog work at this point), I then include a Jekyll Markdown image link (it includes some Liquid tags) in my post.

Rename the file in Path Finder, but leave it selected.

This is because I have a special profile set up there for working with the local copy of my website).

I tend to have this open in Path Finder, a Finder alternative.

Drag the on screen floating thumbnail of the screenshot displayed by Cleanshot to the relevant year in my images assets folder.

Apply any annotations to the screenshot in Cleanshot X.

Effectively just one to always include the datestamp to identify which blog post an image belongs to (I very rarely choose to post more than once per day), and to use hyphens where I might otherwise use spaces. When I moved from Squarespace to hosting a static website, I went back and modified the posts and image locations to conform across the board and I noted down a new naming convention that I’ve been using since.

I therefore began using sub-folders for holding new images a folder per year being sufficient in practice. The list was growing ever longer, and Squarespace’s web interface to manage the files at that time was dire and getting slower with each addition. Adding Screenshots to Asset FolderĪfter a few years of publishing on a SquareSpace site I realised I needed a folder structure to manage my blog images. Both are excellent tools, and if you take lots of screenshots, I would highly recommend taking a look at what they offer. The app provides me with handy menu bar access as well as additional tools for annotating my screenshots, and a floating thumbnail of screenshots. For many years I used Capto for this, but I switched in 2020 to Cleanshot X. While the Mac has screenshot functionality built-in, I prefer instead to use a dedicated app. I recently addressed this by developing my workflow a little and creating something new in the process. While I had a way of doing this that was relatively quick and easy, I found that I always needed to subsequently rename the screenshot to something meaningful and in a format that conformed to my naming standards. When I am writing blog posts for this web site, I frequently need to take screenshots on my Mac and put them into the relevant assets directory to enable them to be included in my post. Automating Adding Screenshots to Blog Posts