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Hold control to save to your clipboard instead of a folder/desktop.

• tomcam 4y ago
  How tf did I not know this. Thanks
  • dczot 4y ago
    Agreed. What I want to know is: how did folks even discover these modifier shortcuts?
• sys_64738 4y ago
  macOS tip of the week.
• lelandfe 4y ago
  It's not a very ergonomic hotkey, though. I click the preview that appears in the bottom right to open, CMD-C to copy, and then click the trash icon to not save.
  • anarticle 4y ago
    Swap your caps lock with control for happier pinky finger. Or if you’re old enough to remember Sun keyboards!
  • gsinclair 4y ago
    With Karabiner I have q+l (hold q tap l) as an alias for that long and uneconomic shortcut.
• biggerfisch 4y ago
  you can also flip these keyboard shortcuts around, which I did for the cmd-shift-4, as I almost always want it to the clipboard without persisting as a file
  • inyourtenement 4y ago
    Ahh that’s nice
  • bfelbo 4y ago
    Sounds great. How do you do that?
• nsonha 4y ago
  people love to talk about how many useful features MacOS has and how user-friendly it is but too many are buried behind a keyboard shortcut with no other way to access. And no "read the manual" isn't it. From certain scale the manual should be out of the window and UI should accomodate for people to learn while using it.
  • lelandfe 4y ago
    /System/Applications/Utilities/Screenshot.app (the interface of which can also be reached via Cmd-Shift-5, allowing video recording and much more)
  • marcellus23 4y ago
    It isn't hidden behind a keyboard shortcut. CMD+Shift+5 exposes the full screenshot UI, and under the clearly-named Options button is a menu that lets you pick the clipboard as the place to save. Holding CTRL is just a... well... "shortcut" for that.
    • nsonha 4y ago
      I use the non-UI snapshot feature a lot more often than video capture so didn't realize that. I guess it was just a more general comment that comes from things like the switching window/app hotkeys. In this instance, there is another issue with finding out holding CTRL does what it does.
    • LocalPCGuy 4y ago
      That is literally the definition of "hidden behind a keyboard shortcut" - you have to be told or lookup CMD+Shift-5 before you can get to the full screenshot UI. It's been a while since I first used MacOS, but I don't remember it telling me how to do that.
      • CharlesW 4y ago
        > That is literally the definition of "hidden behind a keyboard shortcut" - you have to be told or lookup CMD+Shift-5 before you can get to the full screenshot UI. Or more likely, new users search for "screenshot" in Spotlight the first few times, and if they do this enough maybe Google "mac screenshot shortcuts" (which leads them to https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361).
• procinct 4y ago
  God damn, you just changed my life
• cr__ 4y ago
  Cmd-N in Preview to open a new window with the contents of your clipboard goes nicely with this.
  • hbn 4y ago
    Then in Preview you can hit cmd-shift-a to annotate the image. When you're done, cmd-a to select all, then paste wherever applicable. Nothing saved to disk!
• hoten 4y ago
  FYI, Cmd + Shift + 5 encapsulates all the various options into one UI.
  • dopamean 4y ago
    whoa...
  • Groxx 4y ago
    You can also launch the "Screenshot.app" app
    • dorianmariefr 4y ago
      Blew my mind, makes so much sense
• knolan 4y ago
  Also, you only need to hold ctrl when clicking to finish, so less finger twister.