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Alternative: ScreenNinja (cheaper I think, $20)

http://getscreenninja.com/

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An alternative I used to use when I wanted this feature:

`while [ 1 ];do vardate=$(date +%d\-%m\-%Y\_%H.%M.%S); screencapture -t jpg -x ~/Desktop/project_name/$vardate.jpg; sleep 10; done`

Came here expecting to see this as a top-level comment. Really not sure why someone (here on HN) would pay $30 rather than just write a simple script like this.

I could see paying $30 for the options/playback. I'm not sure if `screencapture` gets all the desktops or just the active one or what. Also the playback UI looks nice and is a much better way to check what you were doing and for how long than a directory of images would be. If it was a subscription services I'd be looking for alternatives but one-time purchase? $30 seems reasonable.

Based on the man page it captures the 'screen' for all monitors unless otherwise constrained by options.

Here’s a comment answering this question when we announced the beta. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19700265

I’m guessing the target market is users who are not proficient in scripting, but rather business users who want to monitor their employees or non-coders who want to retroactively be able to construct time logs of their work.

I’m not at a computer or Mac right now. Would getting different monitors be easy?

ScreenNinja seems to also provide a number of features that would prob take a while to implement if you wanted them

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