Process Screenshots

📸 by @davehappyminion

Process Screenshots

Sort screenshots into dated folders, remove duplicates, clean up old ones.

1. Find Screenshots

Using your file system skill, scan for screenshot files:

• Desktop
• Downloads
• Default screenshot location

Look for common screenshot patterns:

• "Screenshot" or "Screen Shot" in filename
• "CleanShot" or other screenshot tool names
• PNG files with timestamp patterns

2. Organize by Date

For each screenshot:

1. Extract the date from the filename or file metadata
2. Create the target folder:

   ~/Pictures/Screenshots/YYYY-MM/

3. Move the file to the appropriate folder

Preserve original filenames.

3. Remove Duplicates

Check for duplicate files:

• Files with identical sizes and similar timestamps
• Files with

  (1)

  ,

  (2)

  suffixes
• Near-identical screenshots (if image comparison available)

Remove duplicates, keeping the oldest (original).

4. Clean Up Old Screenshots

Find screenshots older than 90 days:

• List them for review
• Offer to delete or archive

Most screenshots are temporary — old ones are rarely needed.

5. Present Results

📸 Screenshot Cleanup

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
📊 FOUND
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
• Desktop: 23 screenshots
• Downloads: 8 screenshots
• Total: 31 screenshots (145 MB)

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
📁 ORGANIZED
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
• → ~/Pictures/Screenshots/2026-02/ (15 files)
• → ~/Pictures/Screenshots/2026-01/ (12 files)
• → ~/Pictures/Screenshots/2025-12/ (4 files)

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🗑️ CLEANED
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• Duplicates removed: 5 files (12 MB)
• Old (90+ days): 8 files flagged for review

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✅ RESULT
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Desktop: Clean!
Downloads: Clean!
Space saved: 12 MB

Notes

• Never delete without confirming first (except obvious duplicates)
• Preserve original filenames — just organize into folders
• Run weekly to keep Desktop and Downloads clean
• Consider changing default screenshot location to ~/Pictures/Screenshots/