Scrolling screenshots

[loginx]

One feature I wish for almost daily is the ability to capture content that spans more than what's visible on the screen at a particular moment. Android and iOS have implemented scrolling screenshots, and several screenshot helper applications have implemented it on various platforms since then. I don't know the best UX pattern for this, but essentially, the idea is that you select a capture window, begin the capture, scroll through your content, and end the capture. The tool automatically collates multiple captures into an elongated screenshot.

[tjosten]

Hi @loginx, thanks for your suggestion! Usually, the way this is done on desktop is with e.g. a browser plugin, since most of the time, it's going to be websites that require "scrolling screenshots", right? Dropshare does not come with a browser extension as of today, and collating multiple captures into a single screen shots sounds like there could go a whole lot of stuff wrong. Haven't seen a Mac app yet that does this - if you have any examples, I'd be happy to look at them.

[loginx]

@tjosten I haven't experimented with it, but I've heard that Snagit supports this on the desktop. I've also seen CleanShot X and shottr mentioned on a reddit thread.

Personally, I would use this both in the browser and on desktop apps like Obsidian/Workflowy.

[loginx]

@tjosten FYI, I just experimented with Shottr to understand how it implements that functionality. It works by having you select a region, and then you let it do the scrolling in that window, which can be interrupted by pressing Esc. It looks like it takes a series of screenshots and then collates them at the end. I hope that helps.