Field guides
Evergreen guides on getting more out of screenshots, recordings, and annotation on the Mac. Written by Dom, the one person who builds Snippy Snip.
A screenshot proves a state; a recording proves a sequence. The four marks that remove every reason for the developer to ask a question back.
Read the article →Arrows, boxes, and numbered steps: how to annotate a screenshot on a Mac so the instructions get followed, and the rules that keep a how-to readable.
Read the article →What Live Text does well, where it stops, and the one-step way to pull the numbers off a bank portal or a locked PDF without retyping them.
Read the article →The built-in browser routes to a full-page screenshot, where they break on modern pages, and the one-step way to capture the whole page.
Read the article →How to blur or redact part of a screenshot on a Mac, what to cover before you share it, and what blurring does and does not do to the image.
Read the article →There's no Snipping Tool on a Mac. Here's every built-in screenshot shortcut, the one modifier that puts captures on your clipboard instead of your desktop, and where the built-ins actually stop.
Read the article →Snagit is subscription-only now. An honest map of the one-time options, including the ones cheaper than ours, and the renewal catch hiding inside several of them.
Read the article →Most of finance work is context transfer, and prose is a terrible medium for it. Four workflow habits from twenty years of closes, reconciliations, and one $500,000 finding.
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