Tell application the_app_name to activate Set the name of theFile to cleaned_name & '.png' Move theFile to (POSIX file '/Users/cboyce/Dropbox/Screenshots/Renamed Screenshots') Move theFile to (POSIX file '/Users/cboyce/Dropbox/Screenshots/Webmaster Screenshots') If (characters 12 thru 13 of cleaned_name as string) is 'wm' then Set cleaned_name to the_date_string & '_' & cleaned_name Set cleaned_name to change ' ' into '_' in the_name Set the_name to text returned of the_choice Set the comment of theFile to 'Name changed with Hazel' Set the_date_string to do shell script 'date '+%Y.%m.%d'' If the button returned of the_choice is 'Rename' then Set the_choice to display dialog 'If you want to rename this file, do it' buttons default button 'Rename' default answer old_name Set the_apps to every process whose frontmost is true (When the script runs, it adds a comment with the word 'Hazel' in it to the file.)

As you can see, Hazel will run the AppleScript if the file is an image, added today, whose comment does NOT contain the word 'Hazel.' Since newly-made screenshots do not have comments with the word 'Hazel' in them, these are the right conditions. Here is a screenshot of Hazel, with my 'Name it' rule:Ĭlicking the edit (pencil) button in that window shows you the conditions under which the rule will run. Here is the dialog box that pops up automatically: I use an app called 'Hazel' to watch that folder and to automatically run an AppleScript that shows a dialog box asking if I want to rename the screenshot. I used Cocktail to specify that screenshots are saved to a folder called 'Screenshots' on my Mac.

Macbook change default screenshot path