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Take more screenshots (2022)

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Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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I will recommend using OneNote for putting down screenshots along with text description or whatever you want to write.

It suits perfectly for this kind of usage and is as freeform as the screenshots. Write anywhere, put screenshots anywhere, even attach any other kind of files anywhere within the doc.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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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…

I'm in a similar situation too. I had a website in 2000 hosted at cjb.net.

My first website, which I started in 1999, was first crawled by archive.org in 2005. I think that it was a few years late the computer science department decided to no longer allow alumni to have free home pages, and I lost access to the site.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

#153
While images might last longer than some other files in terms of compatibility, the most durable and flexible format is still plain text. So if what you want is to preserve your ideas, try writing.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

#154

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> 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

Doesn't yacy do the same thing?

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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Just record your entire session with OBS, set at 3fps. I can't count the number of times I've found it helpful to be able to check what I was doing X time units ago.

Do you keep that forever? How often do you need something from a 1/3 second time slice, vs, say 1s or 5s?

No, I don't keep it forever. Even at 3fps plus audio, it adds up. I tried 1fps before, and it was not enough, interfaces move faster than that. 3fps is sufficient, but sometimes I boost it for more important things like when I am teaching.

I usually review them and take a few snapshots before deleting. Some I keep longer.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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I've definitely learned to take more screenshots for over a year now and I'm glad I took the time to "optimize" my process: making use of tools like Syncthing to collect screenshots from my phone and laptops, automatically renaming and filing them in folders and aggressively compressing old screenshots with Hazel, and taking better screenshots overall with Shottr. Oh, and a few handy Shortcuts to stitch and grid scre…

Is there any place that you explain your process thank you

Hm, your comment reminded me to note these down, so yeah, here ya go: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVPtfgISc=

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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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.

I'm interested, and I'm attempting to email you, though I can't quite figure out the email address. I keep getting an address not found error.

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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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.

I'm interested, and I'm attempting to email you, though I can't quite figure out the email address. I keep getting an address not found error.

I poked around their post history and their email is actually: govind gnanakumar outlook com

Re: Take more screenshots (2022)

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I feel like screenshots every 2 seconds would take more space than a full screen video capture.

It does! I ran into this issue (disk filling up with screenshots) and realized that the optimal compression solution already existed and was called a video file, so set up a script to run on cron to convert the folder full of pngs to a mp4.

What size differences are we talking about here? I took one screenshot (+webcam shot) once every hour for three years and it takes up around 5gb for 14,000 images. I believe I compressed it slightly some time ago.
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