Evening, SG folks!!

Tonight, I'm going to discuss my algorithm for quickly saving and organizing a number of image files with arbitrary file names from a photo gallery website without any scripting tricks or app. To state one obvious application, I use this procedure to save SG photosets for my screensaver displays; I've also used it on my job as paralegal, working on cases involving social media advertising and similar issues. If the gallery website is arrow-key scrollable, and allows right-click saving, try this workflow (windows, probably different shortcut keys depending on OS)

1. Starting from the first photo in the set, right click and notice if there's a shortcut key for "save image as" - this is V on windows, indicated by a subtle underline. Using the key saves a ton of unneeded mousing

2. Don't worry about the file name - leave whatever randomized string it arrives as. Using the arrow keys to scroll through, you can dump every photo in a set into a dedicated folder like this, ignoring the file names - the sequence they're saved in is what matters

3. Open that folder and change sort view to "date modified", which should sort them by the exact second they were saved in order. We're going to change the file names so that they will also sort correctly by name. List view is best for this - in windows, you can skip the mouse fuckery and immediately start changing file names by pressing F2. Type a number (starting with 01) for the new organize-friendly name, then hit TAB to immediately activate the next file for renaming in the same fashion

From here, it's all down to how fast you can type. I learned the hard way to do this instead of just relying on the "date modified" data for sorting purposes after restoring from a backup - every picture copied took on the restore date for it's date modified info, making it impossible to sort in sequence, the sequential file names are a good fallback