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Surprised to see PowerTools but not ShareX. Originally a screenshotitng tool that is now somewhat of a more advanced Powertools. For instance, if I'm putting together product documentation I can take a screenshot of a specific window/region, save it to my hard drive, upload the resulting file to S3/B2/FTP, and get the resulting link copied to my clipboard using a single keyboard shortcut. One of the features I use often is the ability to grab a region of my screen and use OCR to convert it into copy/pastable text.

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Snagit has been my go-to screenshotting/documentation tool for 3+ years.

It's not free, but it's the best thing I've found for being able to quickly take screenshots & annotate them - it's got better annotation tools than anything else I've used. It can also record video clips & save w/ relatively small file size (to give a quick walkthrough of a software feature or plainly show replication steps for a problem).

Snagit got me into trouble twice at my last job, by phoning home even when I'd ticked off the preference for sending usage information (which appears you have to opt out of, rather than opt in to, which is a dark pattern in my book anyway). My employers monitored for all data leakage and my machine got flagged for this twice. So I uninstalled it and have never used it since. ShareX is my go-to now.

I've used this for years on my Windows PC until they introduced their new Win+Shift+S screenshot tool. It does everything I'd ever want except for the automatic uploading and copying the URL. But in fairness, I never need it. I just paste the screenshot directly into whichever editor, e-mail or instant messaging client I'm using to communicate.

I have tried ShareX, but I still feel like it is really easy to share a screenshot of something you are working on and share to the internet way too easily. How do you avoid those situations? Feels like having a loaded gun at all times.

personally i just upload to a self hosted bucket but if i don’t want it being uploaded at all i use a different thot key

ie print screen for ss and upload vs shift+ctrl+print screen for just a ss

Honestly, I just have mine configured to copy the image directly to my clipboard and manually go through ShareX or my web browser to upload it somewhere. Most places I'm in (Hangouts/Slack/Discord/etc) allow me to paste images directly, if not Imgur allows uploads from the clipboard.

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