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When you open Snipping Tool, you get the small rectangle box with only 3 menu items at the top. Right away, you’ll notice the tool bar on the left and the menu options at the top with Skitch. The screenshot above is from Skitch and the ones below are from Snipping Tool. In this article, we’ll take a look at Snipping Tool and Skitch and when you would use one over the other. There are times when you need more and Skitch (from Evernote) fits the bill. It’s a great utility belt tool for getting quick screenshots to demo or illustrate a point.

I wrote about Snipping Tool back in 2011.

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Last week’s post: A Framework for Searching in Evernote.A tool I use everyday is the Windows Snipping Tool. As always, this post and all of my Going Paperless posts is also available on Pinterest. If you have a suggestion for a future Going Paperless post, let know me. I hope that in the future, this feature will be added. Currently, the Windows version of Skitch can’t do a timed screen snap. In my day job I work on a Windows machine, and if there is one Evernote feature I am desperate for on that machine it is the Timed Screen Snap for Skitch.

Timed screen snaps allow me to easily create screen captures of exactly what I want to that I can be specific in my instructions or documentation.Īnything you capture in Skitch can be synced and saved in Evernote, so you don’t have to worry about losing the screen capture, and indeed, can access it from anywhere once you’ve synced with Evernote. You know: you get those questions like, “How do I create a filter for this email?” or something similar.

Creating instructional documentation for friends and family.

Using the timed screen capture means I can capture elements of the screen (like menus or hover boxes) that I might not be able to capture with an ordinary screen capture.

Sending screenshots to technical support to illustrate a problem.

The timed screen snap allows me to stage the screenshot exactly how I want it.

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Capturing specific screenshots for software I am developing.There are 3 main areas in which I find the Timed Screen Capture most useful: Instead, I used the Timed Screen Snap function in Skitch, which resulted in this: Clicking on the menu option along and trying to do a normal screen capture wouldn’t work. For the second example, I wanted to show an information menu from CrashPlan from the menu bar on my iMac. In the case of the above screenshot, I pulled down the Screen Snap menu in Skitch in order to be able to capture all of the options on it. You will get a 5 second countdown to get the screen to look however you want. You then select the part of the screen you wish to capture. And yes, in order to produce the following screenshots I had to use the timed-screen capture feature:įrom the pulldown in Skitch, you select the Timed Screen Snap… option like in the image above. Here is what it looks like when you are attempting to do a timed screen capture. This allows you to capture pulldown menus and submenus easily, without having them disappear when you click away. At the end of those 5 seconds, Skitch will capture whatever is on your screen. Skitch will then give you a countdown–the default is 5 seconds.You highlight the part of the screen you want to capture.You select the Timed Screen Capture option.Have you ever tried to do a screen capture where you are trying to illustrate an option on a pull-down menu, only to have the menu disappear the minute you press a key to do the screen capture? The timed screen capture feature in Skitch is designed to solve just this type of problem. One of the features I love in Skitch for the Macintosh 1 is its ability to do timed screen captures.

I use Skitch for these screen captures as well. As a blogger, writing about, say, Going Paperless, I also do a lot of screen captures, as readers of these posts well know. I use Skitch for all of these because they are easy to mark up. As a software developer in my day job, I find I am often doing lots of screen captures.

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