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Take more screenshots (2022)

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Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by sandkoan »

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…

If the rewind feature set—especially the search through screen recording aspect—is the most compelling, then perhaps something I've been working on may be of use. It can basically do everything rewind can (though audio support is a WIP), doesn't cost anything, and feedback would be really helpful.

Shoot me an email at govind gnanakumar com if you're curious or interested in beta testing it.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by humaniania »

Aperocky wrote: post #57

> For example, my oldest files were made in Microsoft Word on an iMac G3 running Mac OS 9. I can open them in a modern word processor, and they look similar – but it’s not the same. Some of the fonts and graphics are missing, and I don’t know where I’d find replacements. > It’s even harder for an undocumented side project I abandoned years ago. Having the code isn’t the same as a working application. The author's sol…

Turn a copy of your old PC into a VHD for a VM before you retire it.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by oldstrangers »

Everyone doing any sort of creative work should maintain a portfolio (writer, developer, musician, painter, architect, interior designer, literally everyone).

I keep recordings of websites I've done on YouTube and add them to my portfolio (http://zchry.org/). It's kind of cathartic to me to be able to revisit things I've spent hundreds of hours on, especially long after they've run their course.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by dirtyid »

Want an archival program that would take 25% size screen shots every X or seconds (or fraction of) and record low bitrate sound when computer active. Index to searchable text and have system up sample data later. Maybe black and white with very limited color info for recolouring as well. So many link rot content that's too hard or difficult to track down online vs being assured there's some fragment of local version that you know you've consumed in the past. Probably log a life times activity with a few dozen terabytes.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by ketzo »

xpressvideoz wrote: post #16

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…

Since you used the phrase “my regular life is being interrupted,” it really does sound like a bit of a compulsion. I’m sorry to hear that.

Have you tried talking to a psychologist or a psychiatrist? OCD and similar disorders are hard to “cure,” but I know from close friends and family that therapy and some drugs both can be helpful in giving you back some control, as well as dealing with some of the itinerant anxiety and depression.

Either way, hope you’re doing okay!

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by darkwater »

pabs3 wrote: post #79
johnnyApplePRNG wrote: post #73

I made my first website on geocities and it kills me that I cannot for the life of me find a record of it any longer. It was a website that "sold" replica/counterfeit watches. I was enthralled with them as a child for some reason. I knew they were popular items on the fledgling internet so I created a webpage for them on geocities and setup an email address to contact if you would like to purchase one. I had lots of…

Geocities was reasonably well archived, do you remember the URL? https://archive.org/web/geocities.php

I'm in a similar situation, I even remember more or less how it was visually but for the life of me I cannot remember the URL or what nickname I could have used, I cannot find it by my 16yo me nickname I remember :(

Edit: reading the page, it's a scrape from 2009. My page was from 1997-1998 and basically used only by me and my circle of friends, chances are it has been lost forever.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by aabbcc1241 »

nextaccountic wrote: post #38
jxf wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> My regular life is being interrupted by taking screenshots all the time, so I have relatively less time to work on important things. I think I lack perspective on this and am not quite understanding what you mean. Where is the interruption coming from? Why do you need to take screenshots?

> I think I lack perspective on this and am not quite understanding what you mean. Where is the interruption coming from? Why do you need to take screenshots? I have this too but it's in the form of saving URLs of interesting things. I just fear stumbling upon something nice, not saving it and then not being able to find it again (which happens regularly btw; Google search and reddit search are pretty bad at finding…

You can use a personal search engine, it runs locally, allowing you search back the content you visited without SEO junks nor privacy leak.

https://github.com/beenotung/personal-search-engine

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Post by andai »

kaetemi wrote: post #40
xpressvideoz wrote: post #16

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…

Just set up a screen recorder to record a frame once every second into a video file.

I used to use TimeSnapper for that. The classic version is free.

It did use a crapload of disk space though (20GB per week?), and most of the data is almost identical, so I started designing an algorithm to store only the differences between images before realizing I had reinvented video codecs... so I just made a ffmpeg one liner to convert the image sequences to mp4 :)

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