As a product manager, I create a lot of screenshots when I’m making quick wireframes or reviewing a feature before it ships. And on a Mac, this means my desktop looks like a wasteland of screenshots and scattered dreams.
To combat this issue, I’ve found a quick hack to store my screenshots in a sepearte folder and make it easy to get to my latest screenshot.
- Create a folder under your user’s home folder called Screenshots. I’m using /Users/jeff/Screenshots
- Open Terminal and enter the following command: defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Users/your-user-name-here/Screenshots. Make sure you enter the absolute path to the folder. “~/Screenshots” won’t work here!
- Log out of your user and back in. Now, your screenshot files should appear in your new folder, and any time you want to clear your screenshots, you can just open that folder and delete everything inside of it.
- For easy access, I’ve dragged that Screenshots folder to my dock:
