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Does that copy the image into the target? If you take a lot of screenshots, I highly recommend https://shottr.cc (nagware/freemium) - Shows preview with buttons to copy to clipboard and/or save to file - Can be configured to automatically copy/save (open app to preview last capture) - Preview has tons of useful features like crop, annotations, color picker, ruler, OCR", "context": "", "use_case": "macOS screenshots", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: EasyShot \u2013 macOS screenshot thumbnails that don't disappear after 5s"}, {"id": 738064576, "item_id": 46129036, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46129036", "by": "buggyipadmettoo", "date": "2025-12-02", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "https://shottr.cc/", "excerpt": "https://shottr.cc/", "context": "", "use_case": "Screenshot capture", "switched_from": "", "story": "Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence"}, {"id": 734135552, "item_id": 45883472, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45883472", "by": "internetter", "date": "2025-11-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use Shottr, I take a screenshot of a screenshot and hit \u201cO\u201d immediately after.", "excerpt": "I use Shottr, I take a screenshot of a screenshot and hit \u201cO\u201d immediately after. Saves me from first saving the file to open it in the native viewer", "context": "", "use_case": "Screenshot capture", "switched_from": "", "story": "I hate screenshots of text"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 787862435, "item_id": 49241402, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241402", "by": "razyoudude", "date": "2026-08-10", "stance": "warn", "quote": "missing features in shottr", "excerpt": "Friend of mine (who's running ice-cream shop, in Poland is much different than in us), a lot of regulation, labels, food and safety, a lot of production problems with calculating POD/PAC (sugar in the ice creams which tells you how they gonna freeze up), he told me once: there is no single app that solves mine particular problem at scale. So i've build it: https://scooply.app/ it has not only ice cream production sof", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are you working on? 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So i've build it: https://scooply.app/ it has not only ice cream production sof", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What are you working on? 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The point here doesn\u2019t seem to be obfuscation from direct LLM inference (I mean, I use Shottr on my MacBook to immediately OCR my screenshots) but rather stopping you from ending up in the dataset. 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Saves me from first saving the file to open it in the native viewer", "context": "", "use_case": "Screenshot capture", "switched_from": "", "story": "I hate screenshots of text"}]}