Ha, i just turned off my desktop so you can't see them all hiding there!
`defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop -bool false` `killall Finder`
macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers
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#182The dock folder is a nice touch. I’m still stuck in a GNU/Linux style mindset, which is a ~/Screenshots directory pinned to Finder.
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
a FOSS alternative is https://flameshot.org/
Amazing tool. And the best FOSS app I ever used on Ubuntu.
I haven't used it, but I really like their website. Describes the tool succinctly and clearly with a few key features highlighted and nothing else.
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#184I swear, I have zero understanding of why Mac users are so delighted when they discover previously-unknown features. These features should be easily discoverable . But maybe I'm missing a trick. Maybe there's a deliberate effort in Apple to make only a minimal viable subset of features easily discoverable. Maybe some features have their documentation hidden a little deeper. And maybe accidental discovery gives Mac us…
what do you want for "discoverability"? some random popup when taking a screen shot is the furthest thing from your mind? things like this are simple to find. just open the list of keyboard shortcuts or search in help for what you want to do.
i like these simple features because the functionality is there when i need it, it isn't thrown in my face when i dont, it has enough configurability to make it fit my workflow, and i dont need to install additional software to do what i want.
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#185If you need to do any image manipulations/highlight on your screenshots, two of the best tools I found are: 1) Monosnap (freemium) - https://monosnap.com 2) Cleanshot ($29) - https://cleanshot.com Both tools also include large amount of extra functionality for taking screenshots and recordings.
I couldn't find anything on their website, my workflow, which I hate is: Screenshot section to file, click on preview before it disappears, markup on iPad with Apple Pencil, copy to clipboard, paste to Docs/Slack/GitHub, delete file. I really wish I could eliminate the temporary files in this process. Do you happen to know if Cleanshot can do iPad annotation?
Just took a quick look and couldn't find any way to do it. That would be a great feature actually.
Re: macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers
#186If you need to do any image manipulations/highlight on your screenshots, two of the best tools I found are: 1) Monosnap (freemium) - https://monosnap.com 2) Cleanshot ($29) - https://cleanshot.com Both tools also include large amount of extra functionality for taking screenshots and recordings.
I couldn't find anything on their website, my workflow, which I hate is: Screenshot section to file, click on preview before it disappears, markup on iPad with Apple Pencil, copy to clipboard, paste to Docs/Slack/GitHub, delete file. I really wish I could eliminate the temporary files in this process. Do you happen to know if Cleanshot can do iPad annotation?
I wonder what the cost benefit on that little popup window for preview is after the screenshot. Too often I find myself being annoyed because it went away before I was able to click on it and as a result I just take another screenshot to get the window to pop up again. Way less often do I find myself annoyed because it stuck around too long.
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
And no one but you is claiming anything about manuals being beamed into brains. I disagree with the idea that MacOS is any more intuitive than any other modern OS (which is the claim that Apple and that I've heard others, make; I'm not saying you are making that claim necessarily). And to bring this back on point, to my very specific original comment, the poster I was responding too said this wasn't "hidden behind a…
> And to bring this back on point, to my very specific original comment, the poster I was responding too said this wasn't "hidden behind a keyboard shortcut" when it most definitely was I'm that original poster. The comment I responded to was clearly referring to holding "ctrl" in order to save to clipboard, not referring to the screenshot ability itself (which as others have mentioned, is not hidden behind a keyboar…
I maintain my comments and opinion, still "hidden behind a shortcut", even if you can find it as an app also. Or even if all you're referring to is the Ctrl modifier.
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#188Oh my goodness thank you so much macOS for giving us a set of awesome screenshot tools and a way to edit them immediately in Preview.app. (Capture to clipboard, then command-N in Preview defaulting to new-from-clipboard.) It’s so blisteringly effective to grab a portion of the screen, draw on it, copy the whole thing again and paste it to a coworker in chat or a task tool. I recently discovered that with my trusty Lo…
its confusing & painful as heck to me that these are different tools with different interfaces & capabilities.
I was a Windows guy for a long time, most of my life actually. Then circumstances forced me to use a Mac for a period of time and I switched. Now I can barely remember half of what I used to jump around Windows. Our cognitive load really isn't built to handle mastery of multiple wildly different operating systems, IMO. Not many people claim to be both Windows and Mac power users, though I'm certain some of those do exist.
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#189The ones I use: ⌘⇧3: Full-screen screenshot ⌘⇧4: Select a screen region to screenshot ⌘⇧6: "Screenshot" of your TouchBar. The last one is useful to me because I use the TouchBar as a tiny screen to output status and debugging information.
You might enjoy this one:
https://github.com/sindresorhus/touch-bar-simulator
It creates a touchbar as a movable floating window on your desktop.
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#190Here is a key sequence I use very often. It takes a screenshot of a chosen window without the window's shadow. - First, type command + shift + 4 (the mouse pointer turns into crosshair). - Then type the space bar (the crosshair turns into a camera icon). - Hover the mouse pointer (a camera icon now), to highlight the chosen window. - Finally, hold the option key and click. This sounds like a lot of steps but it becom…
Add in the control key in the shortcut above and the screenshot will go to the clipboard instead of a file. Useful for pasting a screenshot into something like Messages or Slack. Also there's no need to hold down Option when clicking. You can however hit Esc to cancel the screenshot action.
after copying to clipboard, you can also paste it into an empty preview window by hitting ctrl-N (with preview in the foreground). you can paste additional clippings from the clipboard as impromptu layers that you can drag around on top of the first image.
in this way, folks (e.g., product managers) can quickly compose a mockup using components from a pre-existing UI without opening up photoshop/pixelmator/affinity.