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Take more screenshots (2022)

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Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by totetsu »

thejarren wrote: post #4

I take screenshots all the time, and sync them to iCloud so I can access them immediately on my phone/iPad. I also back up previous years of screenshots, I think I have back to 2015 right now. But one thing that I've been keeping my eye on as well (and used for a month) is https://www.rewind.ai/ which records everything that happens on your M1/M2 mac screen and is immediately searchable. Just like Alex says here "The…

Ubuntu ..14 or so.. had a really good activity journal, where you could see on a timeline every file you touched, website visited, song played, etc. It was not quite a continuous video, but it was so helpful. Something changed that seemed to have stopped the whole project working on newer versions. Maybe the zeitgeist log it relies on is not used by applications so much any more

Edit: found it https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/jammy/man1/gnome-activi...

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by benatkin »

thejarren wrote: post #8
thejarren wrote: post #4

I take screenshots all the time, and sync them to iCloud so I can access them immediately on my phone/iPad. I also back up previous years of screenshots, I think I have back to 2015 right now. But one thing that I've been keeping my eye on as well (and used for a month) is https://www.rewind.ai/ which records everything that happens on your M1/M2 mac screen and is immediately searchable. Just like Alex says here "The…

As an added note, I stopped using Rewind because of the "steep" monthly cost ($20 a month), and the fact that I'd only want to use it as a backup to use long term. Upon reflection, $240 a year to have completely uncut video of my computer screen instantly searchable forever is a very valuable offering. Not to mention the fact that the file size is fairly small compared to large 4k videos. If it were built into macOS…

It's a niche product it seems. I have zero interest in it.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by xpressvideoz »

I have been taking screenshots for years, but it developed into a hoarding OCD. And it is ruining my life. My regular life is being interrupted by taking screenshots all the time, so I have relatively less time to work on important things. I don't even view those screenshots again in the future so the time spent on those screenshots is completely wasted. I don't recommend having a habit of taking screenshots to those that may be vulnerable to OCD.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by cwaffles »

_8j50 wrote: post #3

I actually am in a position where I need to take a screenshot but haven't found any tool on linux that has the right UX like macos builtin screenshot or on windows, greenshot and lightshot. I want to press printscr or some shortcut and immediately screenshot an area of the screen or the whole screen and by default have it saved to a numerically incrementing files under a folder I configure and not have to close or in…

I can recommend flameshot[0]. It has good editing tools built-in, low dependencies, and is ergonomic.

[0] https://flameshot.org/

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by stavros »

benatkin wrote: post #13
thejarren wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As an added note, I stopped using Rewind because of the "steep" monthly cost ($20 a month), and the fact that I'd only want to use it as a backup to use long term. Upon reflection, $240 a year to have completely uncut video of my computer screen instantly searchable forever is a very valuable offering. Not to mention the fact that the file size is fairly small compared to large 4k videos. If it were built into macOS…

It's a niche product it seems. I have zero interest in it.

I mean, I have zero interest in Instagram, but that doesn't make it a niche product.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by thejarren »

benatkin wrote: post #13
thejarren wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As an added note, I stopped using Rewind because of the "steep" monthly cost ($20 a month), and the fact that I'd only want to use it as a backup to use long term. Upon reflection, $240 a year to have completely uncut video of my computer screen instantly searchable forever is a very valuable offering. Not to mention the fact that the file size is fairly small compared to large 4k videos. If it were built into macOS…

It's a niche product it seems. I have zero interest in it.

That makes sense. This archive tool is even more out there because it's not a direct link or file of the content, but just a capture of what the content would be. My work is mostly UI/UX and design related, so the capture is actually pretty valuable.

I'm a bit of a digital packrat, and sometimes like to review personal files from nearly a decade ago, so I think something like this would increase in value for me over time.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by Waterluvian »

One of the most powerful things in the mid 00s was having this app that automatically uploaded any screenshot on my Mac and put a URL in my clipboard. This also combined with the feature of the Mac to screenshot a specific area of the screen.

This was before the UX of sending images was trivial and the UX of this was so amazing that others asked me to help them set it up.

Mind you this was high school and university so it was for what are now called memes as well as homework related stuff. So no real fear of uploading work secrets or whatnot.

The other killer feature was turning on this ability to zoom in the whole screen with hot keys + mouse wheel. I used it CONSTANTLY. It was just a habit to zoom to the width of the actual website content, for example.

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