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I'm curious as to how quickly the storage space usage grows with all those screenshots.

• parsecs 5y ago
  (I'm just talking out of my ass but) I'd imagine the screenshots can be compressed pretty efficiently, as the content of any photographic detail like images/picture don't need to be preserved with outstanding quality..
  • wly_cdgr 5y ago
    Yeah I bet there's a lot of stuff you can do to greatly reduce space usage without even nerfing resolution or losing color. For example if you are always using the same desktop background you could save that once and then just store a reference to it for all subsequent screenshots where it also appears. Also, window chrome and things like webpages and IDE windows will compress well, since there are so full of long runs of the same background color
• selcuka 5y ago
  I guess the screenshots are not stored, only the text extracted using OCR.
  • uomo 5y ago
    Based on the “How it Works” section of their website, it looks like both the screenshot and the text are saved.
• sfg 5y ago
  https://apse.io/faq/ https://apse.io/faq/ "It depends. Screen resolution and multiple monitors affect how much storage an image takes. For a general guideline, if you have a 1080p monitor and run it nonstop for a full 8-hour workday, you could expect in the range of 200-500MB. Apse is fully configurable. If you find it takes too much storage, it can be set to delete snapshots after a certain number of days. For space savings, by default images are saved at a lower quality. If you would rather keep full-quality snapshots, you can set that in your configuration as well."