There could be a general heuristic that can be overridden by application heuristics since applications have a better idea of when the important moments are.
I do take screenshots pretty often (multiple times a day) and have a screenshot folder going back to very early 2000s. I now and then will look for stuff there and bump into weird things. (Was looking for suprnova screenshots the other days for some weird reason but didn’t find one).
Been meaning to try rewind.ai but for some reason I can’t seem to give it permission to record my screen and can’t be bothered to look into why.
How do you know that is a "key moment"? Vs what happened 72 minutes before that triggered the "key moment" you thought was "key", but was really just the final problem form a cascade?
My chief method for saving stuff I want to keep is to use "Save/Print as PDF" to cloud storage. This works for most any web page, and it's good to put in a standard, single-file format.
One time, I went through my medical portal and took screenshots of all the test results, so I'd have my own history, and it'd be on my phone's local storage, where I could call it up during an office visit.
1. Some sites won't let you paste images, so an image URL is needed, and some URL's won't preview (none do at HN). So I take a screenshot and upload to imgbb, or other, and get a clean URL.
2. Faster than shrinking a photo I took, a screenshot is almost always smaller.
3. I clean out captions with no meaning for my post, without opening an image editor.
4. I save tweets and excerpts of README files that say all that I need.
5. I put windows (typically images) side by side for a quick montage or comparison without opening GIMP. (snap)
6. I save screens with account balances for reference, and pretty much anything from Apple's App Store that doesn't allow copying, or listing. Some JavaScript (sc**d?) disables copying, so I screenshot or turn off JS (YMMV with that)
7. I snap images for my recipe manager that are hard to save, ( in some JavaScript flip book), webp (growl) format, or are movies.
Almost never full-screen, nor web page > 1 screen.
I use an app that lets me select an area, and saves snaps, and also lets me copy/drag the snap.
About 5 times a day. App developer. We screenshot bugs and bug fixes. Sometimes it's easier than describing by words. We screenshot the IDE because of syntax highlight.
A ton. My most common workflow is command+4 on Mac, then select rectangle to capture, then reveal in finder, then rename the image file name to something meaningful. Wish I had a faster workflow for this.
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And who says "applications have a better idea of when the important moments are"?
Been meaning to try rewind.ai but for some reason I can’t seem to give it permission to record my screen and can’t be bothered to look into why.
How is it "efficient" to record your screen all the time?!
How do you know that is a "key moment"? Vs what happened 72 minutes before that triggered the "key moment" you thought was "key", but was really just the final problem form a cascade?
My chief method for saving stuff I want to keep is to use "Save/Print as PDF" to cloud storage. This works for most any web page, and it's good to put in a standard, single-file format.
One time, I went through my medical portal and took screenshots of all the test results, so I'd have my own history, and it'd be on my phone's local storage, where I could call it up during an office visit.
2. Faster than shrinking a photo I took, a screenshot is almost always smaller.
3. I clean out captions with no meaning for my post, without opening an image editor.
4. I save tweets and excerpts of README files that say all that I need.
5. I put windows (typically images) side by side for a quick montage or comparison without opening GIMP. (snap)
6. I save screens with account balances for reference, and pretty much anything from Apple's App Store that doesn't allow copying, or listing. Some JavaScript (sc**d?) disables copying, so I screenshot or turn off JS (YMMV with that)
7. I snap images for my recipe manager that are hard to save, ( in some JavaScript flip book), webp (growl) format, or are movies.
Almost never full-screen, nor web page > 1 screen.
I use an app that lets me select an area, and saves snaps, and also lets me copy/drag the snap.
This approach might be slightly faster, with an emphasis on context--without a caption, sometimes just the screenshot makes sense.
You can annotate the pasted image too, with colored rectangles and arrows.
If the first slide is blank, New Slide automatically makes the same type.
Usually for pasting into Slack to discuss. Sometimes to paste into Onenote for docs. Occasionally for blog posts.