How to change default screenshot location on mac

I hate how screenshots clutter up my desktop. Here is how to change the default location of screenshots.

defaults read com.apple.screencapture
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Screenshots
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type png

running random code you found on the internet is never a good idea.

defaults: macOS is a command-line tool for reading and writting user preferences.

com.apple.screencapture: reverse-DNS. So if you owned lovescats.com you can invert it so you have com.lovecats. and use it as a namespace. The screencapture part is the subsystem we are interested in. You could have also said 'finder' or 'safari' for example.