macOS screenshot tricks to impress your co-workers

Post by lostlogin » Fri, Jun 17, 2022, 6:39 AM UTC

jacobsenscott wrote: post #139

nsonha wrote: post #35

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people love to talk about how many useful features MacOS has and how user-friendly it is but too many are buried behind a keyboard shortcut with no other way to access. And no "read the manual" isn't it. From certain scale the manual should be out of the window and UI should accomodate for people to learn while using it.

I've been using computers too long to be able to "see" them through the eyes of a new user. But being user-friendly doesn't mean making every single feature user friendly or discoverable through visual manipulation. It means making the most common tasks user friendly and discoverable. The vast majority of users can be productive on macos without ever using a single keyboard shortcut. I think macos does this better th…

Post by suction » Fri, Jun 17, 2022, 6:44 AM UTC

Post by suction » Fri, Jun 17, 2022, 6:45 AM UTC

Hammershaft wrote: post #158

susam wrote: post #45

Here 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…

I think Mac OS has the most inaccessible hidden hotkey shortcuts out of every OS I've used. Even essential functions like showing hidden files in a directory is uniquely done through an hidden shortcut in Mac OS.

Post by keybits » Fri, Jun 17, 2022, 6:46 AM UTC

bmitc wrote: post #230

Hammershaft wrote: post #158

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I think Mac OS has the most inaccessible hidden hotkey shortcuts out of every OS I've used. Even essential functions like showing hidden files in a directory is uniquely done through an hidden shortcut in Mac OS.

I fully agree. macOS is a nightmare of usability. For showing hidden files and file extensions, there's a Terminal command you can run to permanently set it for every file. Of course, since it's only exposed through some command line utility, I forgot what it was and would have to search again.

Post by lostlogin » Fri, Jun 17, 2022, 6:55 AM UTC

eproxus wrote: post #231

InvaderFizz wrote: post #142

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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?

Doesn’t selecting Preview (instead of the folder, as suggested in the article) let you skip the saving-to-disk part?