04 Nov 2012
Recently, I was sad to discover that Evernote’s purchase of Skitch has finally resulted in the dreaded “discontinuation of service” for the truly great Skitch.com service. While searching for a replacement, I briefly contemplated downgrading Skitch and setting up my own server for images. After a little more thought, though, I remembered how terrible the uptime was on the last personal service I ran, and decided to go with something hosted instead. Cloud is a neat service that provides super easy upload of text, audio, files, and even images. The screenshot integration, though, is what got me to take a serious look.
By combining CloudApp’s upload hotkey with an Alfred extension that extracts direct image links, I was able to recreate my Skitch Pro workflow pretty closely. It doesn’t provide the nice “scribble on your screenshot” functionality that the Skitch app does, but the workflow I settled on means I can use the new Skitch for that without having to upload to Evernote.
So, without further ado, here’s the setup:
Now you’re set! To share a screenshot, push take your screenshot, hit ⌥⌃C and then run the Alfred action. Now you can paste a direct link to the image into Campfire or wherever you like.