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Comment by jason_slack | Hacker News Reader

Interesting idea, can anyone give me ideas for specific use cases in everyday use?

I use Hazel (mentioned by drhayes9 too) to monitor various folders and take action regularly. On the delete side, this includes:

* clearing out any items in Downloads > 1week * clearing out any items from my "Temp" folder > 1 day, unless they have an explicit "save" tag ("Temp" is my go-to alternative to the Desktop and is where I stash anything, well, temporary-ish) * automatically moving screenshots into my Temp folder (where they will soon be deleted)

An open-source, CLI-alternative is maid. It really allows me to scratch my programmer's itch.

https://github.com/benjaminoakes/maid

You know you can specify the folder screenshots are saved to by using:

    defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Full/Path/To/Folder

Why not using /tmp?

1 Workflow: you can put the files anywhere this way, and still have them get deleted.

2 Time granularity (though you could, I suppose, set up subdirectories in /tmp/ with associated hourly/daily/weekly/monthly cronjobs)

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