Jing and Dropbox

Just a quick tip here. Jing is out of beta now and a free download. It’s a slick app, with some nice customization possibilities. If you are also using Dropbox (and you really should be), here is a neat way to make your screenshots quickly usable.

In the Public folder of your Dropbox, make a new folder called Screenshots (or whatever you want). Add a file here, anything really. We’ll need this for later.

Then open up Jing and in the preferences, select Customize Jing Buttons. Now select your Save button. Under Save Location, find your new Public Dropbox folder we created above. Then in Clipboard contents, select Custom Code.

Now go back to your folder and the file you added. Right click this file and find Dropbox… Copy Public Link. With that in your clipboard, go back to the Custom image code box in Jing.

Paste your text into the box. It will be a URL. Delete the filename from the end and add [filename] instead. Save this.

Now you should be ready to go. Test it out by taking a screenshot with Jing, and saving it. It should now automatically add the public URL to the file, ready for you to paste into wherever you need it.

Excellent!