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Comment by firewalkwithme | Hacker News Reader

What do you work with, that you need these functions so frequently ? I never once even thought about needing or wanting any of these features

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Really? I use these features daily. Pretty much whenever I want to share something that isn't just plain text...

But what are you sharing ? pictures of what ? videos of what ? I only paste urls or logs .. and then there is normal chatting

Oh man, all of those things are so convenient once you start using them. If you've never used them, great, irc is probably fine. For me, I could never ever go back to irc, having gotten accustomed to all that stuff on slack.

For example, want to share a screenshot? Hit print screen to capture it, click to the browser, click to the tab, hit ctrl-v to paste, done. Instead of, what, uploading an image to an image-sharing site? I wouldn't even know how to do that at this point.

How slack copy from the source ? I'm missing something or you never do ctrl+c ?

PrintScreen copies to the clipboard.

Oh thank you!

For future reference in case you need to share a screenshot elsewhere... It's literally the same process to post a screenshot to imgur. No account needed.

I am a big fan of greenshot. It takes over the print screen button. You then draw a box around the area you want to capture and then you can select to copy to clip board or open it in the sketching portion or even upload direct to imgur where it then puts the URL of the file in your clipboard.

I use those features all the time.

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