Changing the screenshot settings to make copying the image to your clipboard is good advice, it's one of the first things I do on a new Mac. I take maybe half a dozen screenshots a day, and the workflow is almost always pasting them into Slack or Jira; I don't need my OS to save a local copy on my desktop.
I'm not sure I get the advantage of putting things into a tmp directory. If I have to move things out of there to avoid them being deleted automatically, that seems like about the same amount of work as just archiving important downloads and then deleting everything in ~/Downloads once in a while. And safer too. By that logic, you might as well just save your downloads in the Trash.
I'm not sure I get the advantage of putting things into a tmp directory. If I have to move things out of there to avoid them being deleted automatically, that seems like about the same amount of work as just archiving important downloads and then deleting everything in ~/Downloads once in a while. And safer too. By that logic, you might as well just save your downloads in the Trash.