On my Windows desktop I have Share X set up to always save the screenshots I make into the screenshot folder.
That way I don’t have to do extra steps to post a screenshot on social media, but when I want to find an old screenshot - I only had to look in a local folder, instead of scrolling hundreds of megabytes of webpages.
There’s a checkbox in settings “After taking a screenshot: Save file to default folder”, but it doesn’t seem to do anything when I press Ctrl+Print Screen to select a region.
with that checkbox enabled my workflow is this:
prt sc to activate spectacle
draw the rectangle and release the mouse
this spectacle dialog appears (note the green highlight) and a copy of the capture is saved to the default folder as well as my clipboard.
there is a handy link present to take you to your saved folder if you wish to access the file.
note: this autosave occurs BEFORE any annotations… a 2nd copy is saved after you finish annotating and hit the Save button unless you choose Save As and overwrite you autosaved copy.
i find this workflow an improvement over my experience with shareX
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Interesting, I can’t reproduce this step. After I release the mouse I have the toolbar appear under the selection. I can click copy or save on it, but not both.
here’s my general settings (22.04.3)
my save directory is the ~/Desktop folder and i didn’t modify the shortcuts at all.
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