I'd add to this: Take screenshots, and consider compiling them into a book. [0]
Take more screenshots (2022)
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Re: Take more screenshots (2022)
#82I 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…
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Re: Take more screenshots (2022)
#83Just 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.
AMD and Nvidia Drivers can both be set up to record the X last minutes of the screen. I've found it very useful when logging bugs to be able to step back through my last few minutes to see the steps that led to the bug.
Re: Take more screenshots (2022)
#84I 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…
A reminder that iCloud Photos is not end to end encrypted, and that both Apple and the US federal police (FBI et al) have warrantless access to the contents of iCloud, so you are creating a huge trove of data that could be misused against you by police at any point in the future should it be politically expedient to do so. Screenshots frequently contain all sorts of extremely sensitive information. This may not be pa…
From Dec 7, 2022:
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/12/07/apple-advanced-data-pro...
Re: Take more screenshots (2022)
#85I use SnagIt to capture a screenshot with a single keystroke when I hit the print-screen button. I have configured SnagIt to automatically store .png file with a date/time stamp. Out of 100 screenshots, 99 will never be viewed, but that 1 out of 100 is valuable.
> SnagIt [1] $62.99 for something that you could hack together in a few lines of (power)shell script? [1] https://www.techsmith.com/store/snagit
Greenshot is a FOSS alternative which achieves a similar thing
Re: Take more screenshots (2022)
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good luck compiling an iOS app you built and last touched in 2012 against a modern version of XCode. You'd need to keep an entire old, un-upgraded Mac around just to have a chance of doing that without MAJOR engineering work!
What about a Virtual Machine? I've found VMWare Fusion does a good job with Mac guests. Snow Leopard works quite well. You could even do it from a non-Mac host if you don't mind applying well-known patches to VMWare.
I think the best solution is to just keep both, I have all the source code for all my projects since maybe 2008. But I also keep a lot of screenshot, if I want to refer to an old project I go to those screenshots (or even better, videos) in 99.9% of the cases.
Re: Take more screenshots (2022)
#87I 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…
You can download existing auto-screenshot-tools or even setup a cron to take them every 2 seconds. Maybe it could reduce your OCD by knowing it is always being done for you?
Re: Take more screenshots (2022)
#88Here is a fun story about screenshots.
All of us had that feeling: you are browsing the Internet and suddenly see something cool. You either forget to bookmark it or that cool thing is not cool enough to be amongst your bookmark items (which are clearly much cooler). Sometimes you may also think: "Whatever, I have my browser's history, I'll find it later if needed". Later, you want to show that cool website or app or whatever to your friend. You check your bookmarks, well, nothing there. You check your browser's history and can't find it - you don't even remember the website. Later, you realize that on top of evertyhing, you were using the Incognito mode and there is no way to find anything for that session.
Well, when it comes to browsing history, there is a chance to look back and go through the visited websites (if you are lucky). However, what about web forms or something you were coding and then said "f### it, i don't need it", closed the file and then in a few days later: "damn, i should've saved that file"..
So, I had millions of situations like that. At some point, I was like: "this shit can't go like that forever". And I found the solution.
I installed a spyware on my own computer. The spyware would make screenshots either every Nth second or each time a user switches from one application to another. To activate the spyware's interface, you (as an evil hacker who has access to your victim's local computer) would have to setup a secret key combination (say Ctrl+A+I+P), followed by a password. The spyware interface allows you to see everything that was happening on the computer: list of loaded applications, screenshots (!), keys you typed, everything!
This post gets so long, but the result was a pure success. I used the tool a shit ton of times to recall what I did in the pass.
FAQ:
Q: Wouldn't the screenshots take a lot of space on your hard drive?
A: No. They were compressed. The quality was good enough to understand everything.
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Q: What about the data going to someone else's computer over the network, say, the creators of the spyware?
A: This was a local spyware. No network traffic whatsoever.
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Q: Do you still use the tool?
A: No. This was many, many years ago. I was a Windows user back then. I haven't seen similar tool since I switched to Mac computers.
Re: Take more screenshots (2022)
#89Here is a fun story about screenshots. All of us had that feeling: you are browsing the Internet and suddenly see something cool. You either forget to bookmark it or that cool thing is not cool enough to be amongst your bookmark items (which are clearly much cooler). Sometimes you may also think: "Whatever, I have my browser's history, I'll find it later if needed". Later, you want to show that cool website or app or…
Although I haven't tried it, rewind.ai does something similar with Macs (records searchable screenshots and audio)
Re: Take more screenshots (2022)
#90I 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…
You can download existing auto-screenshot-tools or even setup a cron to take them every 2 seconds. Maybe it could reduce your OCD by knowing it is always being done for you?
I feel like screenshots every 2 seconds would take more space than a full screen video capture.