Making (more) actions available on clipboard history items?

[smagdali]

A very common activity for me is to take a screenshot directly to the clipboard and then want to do something with it (Open in Preview.app, email to someone). Currently I still have to open the relevant app and then paste in, or the other route is to screenshot to a file and then find it and open it. I was wondering if were possible to add the relevant actions (Open, Open With, Save, Save As, Email To, etc etc) to clipboard history items when possible.

 

Basically I want to be able to 'right arrow' on clipboard history items and get a version of this sheet.

 

Is there a workaround?

Is it possible?

Feature request?

 

Just another way to strengthen my already almost total Alfred dependency.

[deanishe]

That's not really possible to do with clipboard data.

 

The right way to do it would be to write a short script that takes the screenshot, saves it to a file, and then calls Alfred's File Actions on that file. You can trigger the whole thing with an Alfred Hotkey.

 

Here's a simple example.

Note: the screencapture command it uses can also directly open a screenshot in Preview.app or as an attachment in Mail.app.