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Shottr - someone on HN recommended it, and I use it several times a day at work (FE here). It screenshots to clipboard quickly, and you can paste these right in

by muzani 2y ago

Shottr - someone on HN recommended it, and I use it several times a day at work (FE here). It screenshots to clipboard quickly, and you can paste these right into Slack or Facebook or ChatGPT etc. It also does text & QR recognition, so you can copy text from images and such. BetterSnapTool - lets me move windows into other screens easily, the main feature that I miss from windows. BetterTouchTool - mostly just mapping my 4th & 5th mouse buttons to copy & paste

tra3 2y ago
There's also https://www.snipaste.com https://www.snipaste.com with very similar functionality. I dont understand how it's free.
glial 2y ago
You can also take a screenshot and save it to the clipboard with ctrl+cmd+shift+4 (for a selection) or ctrl+cmd+shift+3 (for the entire screen). The same keys but without the 'ctrl' key will save them to file. It seems like a ridiculous keyboard shortcut but I use it so much, it's motor memory now.
- noahtallen 2y ago
  The great thing about Shottr vs system screenshots is the annotations you can put up very quickly. E.g. 1. $hotkey for screenshot 3. Hit enter to edit 4. Press A to draw an arrow with the mouse 5. Cmd-c to dismiss the edit window and copy & paste wherever. So it basically only takes as long as you take to click down an arrow with your mouse
  - al_borland 2y ago
    I usually use Markup for drawing on screenshots. It's not a rich as Shottr, but I'm usually just drawing a box around something or making an arrow to draw someone's attention.
  - EricE 2y ago
    Side note - shift-command-1 ejected the floppy in disk drive one, shift-command-2 ejected the floppy in disk drive two and thus screen shot landed on shift-command-3 I remember when I got my second floppy drive and thought I was living the high life not having to swap disks!
- yen223 2y ago
  cmd-shift-5 lets you choose between all the screen capture options, plus it also allows you to do screen recordings.
ziml77 2y ago
BetterSnapTool isn't needed anymore since the functionality is built into BetterTouchTool. The dev of those programs recommends only using BTT to avoid conflicts between the two.
- muzani 2y ago
  Thank you, didn't realize this!

by muzani 2y ago

tra3 2y ago

There's also https://www.snipaste.com https://www.snipaste.com with very similar functionality. I dont understand how it's free.

glial 2y ago

You can also take a screenshot and save it to the clipboard with ctrl+cmd+shift+4 (for a selection) or ctrl+cmd+shift+3 (for the entire screen). The same keys but without the 'ctrl' key will save them to file. It seems like a ridiculous keyboard shortcut but I use it so much, it's motor memory now.

noahtallen 2y ago
The great thing about Shottr vs system screenshots is the annotations you can put up very quickly. E.g. 1. $hotkey for screenshot 3. Hit enter to edit 4. Press A to draw an arrow with the mouse 5. Cmd-c to dismiss the edit window and copy & paste wherever. So it basically only takes as long as you take to click down an arrow with your mouse
- al_borland 2y ago
  I usually use Markup for drawing on screenshots. It's not a rich as Shottr, but I'm usually just drawing a box around something or making an arrow to draw someone's attention.
- EricE 2y ago
  Side note - shift-command-1 ejected the floppy in disk drive one, shift-command-2 ejected the floppy in disk drive two and thus screen shot landed on shift-command-3 I remember when I got my second floppy drive and thought I was living the high life not having to swap disks!
yen223 2y ago
cmd-shift-5 lets you choose between all the screen capture options, plus it also allows you to do screen recordings.

ziml77 2y ago

BetterSnapTool isn't needed anymore since the functionality is built into BetterTouchTool. The dev of those programs recommends only using BTT to avoid conflicts between the two.

muzani 2y ago
Thank you, didn't realize this!