• mosiacmango@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Try out greenshot. It’s a FOSS tool that let’s you click and drag a box around the area you want to screenshot. It also let’s you save multiple outputs, so you can auto upload a screenshot to dropbox/etc while also letting you paste locally. You can customize how file names are generated, on and on. Completly free.

    Mine is setup to always save a copy of a screenshot to a folder that is date stamped, but also saves to my clipboard, so I can paste it anywhere.

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      2 months ago

      ShareX can also do this. Snipping tool is fairly quick to use, though. Just WIN+SHIFT+S on Windows

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      2 months ago

      Everyone always brings up Greenshot every time someone else mentions Snipping Tool. I know the language in which Greenshot was written and I know about the efficiency issues. I just like having a lightweight program that fires at the press of a hotkey, and dumps straight to the clipboard. Thanks for the suggestion, but I didn’t ask for a replacement for Snipping Tool.