I am quite a data hoarder, but I take so many screenshots that I’ll probably never look at again, and it occurred to me that this might be my generation’s “printing emails” thing.
My mom doesn’t know how to save an image to her phone or iPad, so she will use her camera on the phone to photograph something on her iPad to send to my aunt.
OCR makes this strategy way more useful than it otherwise would be haha
These days elders are printing screenshots of emails (and wondering why they’re cut off).
Printing your bills and documents can save you a lot of trouble when needed.
Sometimes I screenshot and crop a picture I want to save if there is no alternative to saving it as a .webp
I have done that more times then I count or when I website won’t let me download something.
When pixel count doesn’t matter, that’s probably the easiest way to do it.
There are web browser addons which can change the export to a png, but if all else fails, imagemagick after saving the image takes less time than screenshotting and cropping.
Lies! sobs
My fiancee refuses to use a Notes app on her mobile phone. Instead, she SMS texts notes to her own number.
She also likes to screenshot and text news headlines instead of copy / paste.
Honestly, I SMS myself occasionally 😬
Know any good notes apps?
I really like Obsidian.md
Apparently it got bought by Proton, but Standard Notes has been my brain dump forum for years now. I love it
That’s awful. They were the no bullshit “we’re independent forever” note application and they sold themselves to Proton. Shame.
Get off my lawn!
No I will not. I will take a picture of it to then take a screenshot, just cuz.
I’ll have you know that I took a screenshot of this and faxed it to my greatgrandchildren so now you’re gonna get it.
Out of curiosity, what do you take screenshots of? That’s not something I’ve heard of people doing compulsively.
Maybe that’s just a me thing. Other than just stuff to try and remember for later, it’s usually pretty dumb. Stuff like: items in some online store, images on a search page generally (not downloading anything specific, just snapping a shot from the general view), etc. It’s kinda hard to explain, but let’s just say out of a set of 70,000 pictures, at least 50,000 are screenshots.
I’m the same way, but I only have about 6k Screenshots, so I have a lot of work ahead of me.
70,000 is too many to have of anything
Molecules of water? hair follicles? Grains of rice?
Yes,make them bigger and fewer
Euros per month? No, barely enough for a relaxed lifestyle.
I tend to do that with real life objects. For example, I might snap a photo of a price tag in a store, walk over to the next store and compare prices.
I tend to do that with real life objects. For example, I might snap a photo of a price tag in a store, walk over to the next store and compare prices.
I take pictures of things I want to find faster over hunting for emails or text messages while on vacation and there’s maybe spotty Internet. i also do this for cooking directions.
I only take screenshots of things I can’t directly save. Or video games. This is the last thing saved in my phone’s screenshot folder:
