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Show HN: Capture a screen area in OS X and automatically pin it
- bazzargh 13y agoThis seems to be solving a problem of information being hidden by overlapping windows - but that's also solved by tiling window managers, like Amethyst and osxmonad. https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst On the whole I think I prefer the Amethyst approach - the snappy overlays themselves obscure information beneath them.
- nullcode000 13y agoExactly, it prevents breaking context by switching windows back and forth to access a piece of information. Tiling is, of course, another way to solve the problem. I prefer snappy because i can extract the exact piece of information i'm interested in, for example a portion of an image or a paragraph of text, instead of the whole thing.
- girvo 13y agoSo I've always just used Divvy for this, but Amethyst looks super awesome! I might give it a try!
- nutate 13y agoIf it weren't for the extraneous window decoration you end up with. I'm good with using Moom to size and shape my windows on the fly on OSX. I've been relatively happy tiling on Linux though, but customizing keyboard shortcuts gets tedious quickly. The main problem with OSX has been knowing which window is foregrounded, especially with two monitors.
- rasmusbe 13y agoI really like this tool! Thanks! Some small requests thou: - I would like to be able to select multiple old snaps and delete them. - Some kind of Quit-protection would be nice, I closed Snappy by mistake when I tried to close a snap with Cmd+Q.
- nullcode000 13y agoThank you for the feedback! The first point is planned for 1.2 which i hope to launch by years end. It also has annotations and more sharing+storage options. Plus iCloud with an iOS app so you can access the snaps on the phone. As for CMD+Q, you're right, it needs quit protection - added to list for 1.2.
- frenger 13y agoCMD+Q is intended to quit: that's what CMD+W is for (for closing the current window).
- mikeash 13y agoYes, but it's standard for apps to ask for confirmation before quitting if there's reason to think the user might not really mean it e.g. there's unsaved data or unfinished operations.
- Someone 13y agoI know you know, but for those who don't: it _was_ standard. Apple nowadays promotes applications to autosave and restore windows with their content at startup. I think an utility like this should follow that strategy.
- unfamiliar 13y agoI didn't know I needed this but it's great! Some feature requests: - Ability to resize by grabbing corners - Option to quit after all snaps are closed
- nullcode000 13y agoGlad you like it! Funny thing, "I didn't know i needed this" is the most common feedback we get. :) Resizing is on the list, although it will impact the image quality if you resize up. On the same list I have making the window transparent so you can see content below it. Not sure if I understand the second one. Do you mean quit Snappy after closing all snaps? (it's quietly sitting in the top bar)
- acoleman616 13y agoWith that being the most common feedback you get, I would highly recommend adding some good use cases to your landing page to tell people why they should want to use it.
- nullcode000 13y agoWill do. New website coming up v1.2. Thanks!
- intellegacy 13y agoIs it Free to use for one month, or free to download and use forever, offer expiring after one month?
- wukkuan 13y agoIt's in the Mac App Store (they can't charge you again later) so it's free to download and use forever, offer expiring after one month.
- nullcode000 13y agoIt's going to be free forever. The image on the website is a bit old from when we wanted to charge for it. It will have in-app purchases in later versions, but the basic version is always free. Sorry for the confusion.
- brodney 13y agoI kind of see the utility of having screenshotted rects remain visible. I personally will stick with Cmd+Shift+4 since it does the screenshot-with-bounds and saves to desktop by default. Maybe I just don't see what the extra value is here?
- seivan 13y agoAutomated upload instead of having to use Dropbox.
- jcutrell 13y agoI've used Cloud app for this in the past - works great, but has an upload limit. What's the story on that here?
- RBerenguel 13y agoMy same feeling. My girlfriend and coworkers love Skitch. I just use Cmd-Shift-4 and Preview when I need to add some arrows or text to a screenshot. Need to upload? Dropbox and "share link." Of course streamlining it is okay, but not for me.
- tmikaeld 13y agoVoila does the same + much more, like gallery manager and recording with sound. Also uploading to SFTP and FTP. http://www.globaldelight.com/voila/ http://www.globaldelight.com/voila/
- nullcode000 13y agoThe concept is a bit different. Snappy is not a screen capture app, it's a tool for referencing info between screens. But granted, it does it by taking a snapshot of a portion of the screen. Snappy is designed to be seamlessly used, not a feature packed app. It's an extension to the OS.
- lookup23713 13y agoHello everyone, because of the HN traffic, i'll have to take the site off-line for a few minutes to resize the server.
- lookup23713 13y agoBack online :)
- Angostura 13y agoPersonally, I use the Dashboard clipping tool in Safari, I don't quite see what this adds.
- nullcode000 13y agoWell, it doesn't limit you to clipping in safari for one. And even if you only clip in safari, it's not that seamless of a process with selecting the area and all.
- alexobenauer 13y agoI thought this was superfluous until I downloaded it. It does what it does so well that it makes itself useful in a surprising number of ways - for me, I can quickly screen grab anything I need to remember or keep around for the day and put it at the front of my secondary screen. Simple idea, great execution.
- ya 13y agoeverything is good, but i think the image sharing url is a little bit of ugly :((
- nullcode000 13y agoI know, it is. We're shortening it with the next version. :)
- john2x 13y agoI love it. Something I won't use all the time, but will be glad that it's there when I need it.
- redliner51 13y agoI use Jing in first place for fastly sharing screenshots and videocasts. But I also use it 3-4 times a year for the same functionality your app provides. http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
- untog 13y agoWhat I thought this was judging by the name (and what I want): Windows-style window 'snapping' at the edges. Pull window to the left to dock in the left 50% of the screen. To the right for the right 50% of the screen. Up to take up the whole screen. One of the few things I miss about Windows.
- optimo 13y agoYou can achieve this using a mod like BetterTouchTool or BetterSnapTool, with customizable options.
- wingerlang 13y agoI'll confirm this. I am using three-finger-swipes for window snapping. Up maximises, left makes it take up 50% and is positioned to the left (vice versa for right swipe) and swipe down minimises the window. It is great.
- e1ven 13y agoYou might like BetterSnapTool - https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/bettersnaptool/id417375580?mt=12 https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/bettersnaptool/id417375580?m...
- untog 13y agoLooks perfect. Thanks!
- FootballMuse 13y agoMoom has worked well for me. http://manytricks.com/moom/ http://manytricks.com/moom/
- dxm 13y agoSpectacle[1] is excellent for this. [1] http://spectacleapp.com/ http://spectacleapp.com/
- 3rd3 13y agoThere is also a scriptable window manager: https://github.com/sdegutis/zephyros/ https://github.com/sdegutis/zephyros/
- bracobama 13y agoI've been using Screenfloat (http://www.screenfloatapp.com http://www.screenfloatapp.com) for a long time, the one thing that I didn't like about it was the delay involved from screenshot execution to display. Sometimes this could take 4-5 sec which was a pain cause I needed it to be instantaneous. SnappyApp solves this problem so thank you, you've just become the replacement :)
- nullcode000 13y agoWe won't disappoint. :)
- lordlarm 13y agoCan I hide the icon from the top bar?
- nullcode000 13y agoIn this version, no. But you will be able to do this in the next one.
- bracobama 13y agoYou can if you use http://www.macbartender.com http://www.macbartender.com - it's really handy for hiding all your taskbar apps.
- nightwolf 13y agoQuite a coincidence. I was seriously thinking that I could really use an application precisely like this earlier today, and here it is! Love it!
- degenerate 13y agoThe demo would be more useful if it told me I can drag the boxes after snapping them, and if the page had more vertical scroll space so I could see them stay in place when I scroll.
- daviddoran 13y agoNice work. Might be interesting to be able to add our own backends, e.g. allow a URL to be entered in preferences and then SnappyApp just does a regular POST of multipart/form-data and the "Location: ..." returned by the server is copied to the clipboard as the shareable URL.
- fcanas 13y agoI wrote an app that takes aspects of this to the next level, especially the cases where they recommend when to use it. In my app, you capture a full window instead of a portion of the screen. Then the snapshot is continually updated. It's not for saving, just for cross-reference really. Though it also works really well in presentations and demos. http://appstore.com/mac/duplicatewindows http://appstore.com/mac/duplicatewindows
- jongold 13y agoThis is excellent - I've been looking for a simple replacement to Skitch for a while. Any chance you could add either Cloud.app support or let me drag the image to Cloud.app (like you can with V1 of Skitch)?
- AaronLasseigne 13y agoHave you seen https://www.monosnap.com https://www.monosnap.com? It's worked well for me as a Skitch replacement.
- jwr 13y agoThis looks like a replacement for Skitch. It is nowhere near as good yet, but perhaps it will get there. I'm hoping it will! Mind you, when I write "Skitch", I mean the original Skitch 1.0, not the disaster that happened after Evernote bought Skitch and decided to "redesign and integrate with Evernote".
- kawsper 13y agoThe worst thing about Skitch is the integration with Evernote. No, I don't want to sync, I just want to take a screenshot and drag the image to an application.
- crixlet 13y agoI don't think it's strictly a replacement for skitch. Think of this use case: you're responding to an email and need to have a bit of text to refer to in your response email. This tool would allow you to snap that text and overlay it on top of all windows so you can refer to it easily... I love skitch and use it 20+ times a day, but I can see using this in addition.
- klinquist 13y agowow, already used this several times this morning. Thank you!
- jzd131 13y agoThey should list the price on the website
- nullcode000 13y agoIt's free. :)
- jlturner 13y agoIncredibly useful, getting my whole office to use it. I only wish I could resize the snaps on my screen.
- nullcode000 13y agoResizing snaps is actually one of the next features on our list. :)
- osxrand 13y agoMost of this isn't useful to me, but I really like your "Snap Webpage Preview" feature. Sometimes I just want a clean copy of the site, and this is a fast easy way to get it. I also like the Snaps from the Past, so far, fast to load, and clean. Good defaults for sorting. One thing I think would be nice, would be once you have a floating snap, if I mouse over it I'd love to see where it was taken. I realize that information is available in the Snaps from the Past window, but a quick transparent window with clear text across the bottom of the snap (not sure what you'd do if the snap was too small) would be wonderful. Thank you for the opportunity to try this app. When you put your price back up, I've a number of clients I'll be recommending it to.
- triple-double 13y agoThis looks really great. I take tons of screenshots, always forget to delete the file on my desktop after I'm done doing whatever I need to do with it (email it, tweet it, whatever), and then spend too much time cleaning everything up once I've amassed too many. Now I can do what I need to do with it, keep it or delete it, and not have to worry about my desktop filling up.
- islon 13y agoThis is really cool but I have one question: "Now free, one month only" that means it's free forever if I download it this month or can I use it for free for one month and then I have to pay?