Ask HN: Has anyone else found themselves using more screenshots?
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Totally not guerilla marketing then?
The matched pair of meconium accounts seems like a tell.
The matched pair of meconium accounts seems like a tell.
I was kind of upset when someone popped in to advertise something. I have no clue why anyone would pay for a screenshot tool, they're built into every modern OS.
Seems like there is an opportunity here for a workflow involving clipboard management and GPT-4V or another vision model.
Same thing here. Another reason is that, often, when I share something I don't know if people have access to the content (paywal / authwall), with a screenshot I know they do. Moreover the experience of the receiver is better anyway: no extra loading, no ads, no bloated interface.
Funny how much goes into these very specific arrangements of pixels, just to become a low-res photo.
Yeah I do that pretty frequently. Screenshot to crop things out, or resize, or even just not spend so damn long tapping through mobile sharing interfaces.
I find myself doing the same thing a lot on mobile
Mobile phones are a weirdly un-file-centric way of interacting with a computer. It always feels like I'm breaking the rules when I try to download, open, or move a file.
iOS will auto-OCR text in screenshots for search and copy/paste.
And for Android users the stock photo app on Samsung does the same?
And we had https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-screenshotgo-ca...
And we had https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-screenshotgo-ca...
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Today I wanted to download an image attachment in gmail on iOS, but it wasn't possible so I just took a screenshot and went on with my day. It's also the fastest way to copy an image after its been pasted in a google doc. Google is pretty aggressive about not letting people copy photos.
But I've also been using screen shots in weird ways. For instance, if I want an image to be smaller, I open the image, zoom out then screen shot. It's faster than opening a dialog and typing numbers.
I often screenshot text because copy/paste might lead to formatting issues and I'd really rather not.
It's gotten to the point where I often don't even think to right click an image anymore. So many sites do weird stuff, it's just faster to snip the screen.
Is anyone else falling into these habits? It seems funny to me.