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Screenshot Captor / Request for new Screenshot Captor edit tool

« Last post by AzureToad on September 24, 2025, 02:47 PM »

My work uses Techsmith Snagit for their preferred tool for screen shots. It's nice, but I prefer Screenshot Captor.
There is one editing tool that Snagit has that I'd love to see Screenshot Captor include - the "Cut Out" tool.
This lets me cut out part of the capture, bringing the remaining parts closer together. This is helpful when I need to reference two parts of the screenshot that are on opposite sides of the image and I want to exclude the stuff between.
An example of the tool is shown here.
I'd love to be able to have this in Screenshot Captor.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Security issue with cloud access

« Last post by wraith808 on September 23, 2025, 08:28 PM »

Sounds like that's the screenshot photo and it's probably pointing to your onedrive folder because you've said backup my documents in onedrive. I know, because onedrive did that to me too.

You can change it in the options - it's pointed to %MyDocuments%\ScreenshotCaptor\Screenshots by default in Saving and Loading Files. There's also a place to add folders for the right-click options under My Favorites.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 End of Life: October 14, 2025

« Last post by wraith808 on September 23, 2025, 08:22 PM »

I was hesitant to update to windows 11, but once my work did it on my work laptop, I started on my other machines. It's not that bad, in all honesty. Using Start 10 and DOpus and it's not really been a change.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 End of Life: October 14, 2025

« Last post by Dormouse on September 21, 2025, 06:18 PM »

when it comes to graphic editing, it gets tricky. What's the Linux alternative to Adobe and Affinity tools? GIMP? Inkscape? Seen it, laughed, deleted it.

...

Linux, the BSDs and other free systems are simply unsuitable for many people as an alternative to Windows and macOS. Sure: there's Wine. So people install Linux to "get away from Microsoft", and then need a Windows simulator for most of the software tools they want to use in everyday life. That would be too daft for me.

By the way: Third-party file management tools on Windows exist, including (but not limited to) KDE Dolphin, praised by some as a "Linux killer application", ironically. Just saying.

-Tuxman (September 10, 2025, 07:08 PM)

Agree completely. Been there, done that too often.
And haven't used anything except third part file management tools for a very very long time.

And, despite disliking Apple even more than MS, I now have a Mac 4 Mini on my list should I ever need to use a Mac program regularly.

PS I too like Softmaker Office. But in practice I always use actual Word because it's better (though I appreciate that most users will never need that 'better' or even be aware it exists).

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General Software Discussion / Re: I'm thinking of going primitive, with discursion into zettelkasten

« Last post by Dormouse on September 21, 2025, 05:54 PM »

Boris pocketed the map and cleared the surrounding debris, piling models, paper, tools and unused materials on top of each other. ‘This way I know where everything is,’ he declared.

(Rotherweird by Andrew Caldecott)

Ultimately this is the purpose of a substantive whiteboard app - a collection of stuff for a project that can be shuffled and rearranged and added to where the mind can be relied on to know where everything is and visual arrangements prompt new thoughts. I have vacillated about what to say about my experience with Noteey and Milanote. My usage is infrequent. Both have aspects I like; both have aspects I don't; their workflows and use cases are surprisingly different. My thoughts haven't crystalised. I tried Milanote because it was recommended to me by a writer, Noteey because I had come across it. Proper testing requires a degree of commitment, but when Milanote was my only option I found the workflow in getting going on a new project was so cumbersome, that it simply made it impossible (for me; might not be the case for everyone). I know that I ought to look at Miro and Mural too; they also, I believe, are web apps.

I like the basic structure of Noteey. It's local. It has a card library, like Lattics and Heptabase, but not everything is a card. I'm not quite sure where it's going - there seems to be user pressure for adding PKM features. And I'm aware that Lattics will add a whiteboard sometime which might be sufficient for me. But there's also a big advantage sometimes in just adding stuff from the web, and Noteey isn't good at that. But I have discovered that pasting a web url to a whiteboard opens a direct pane and I can login. So I can add Milanote to a Noteey whiteboard! Presumably I can do that with Miro and Mural too, and they all have free accounts. I'll see where that takes me.

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N.A.N.Y. 2025 / Re: [NANY] KeyStick v1.0

« Last post by orlith on September 20, 2025, 01:12 PM »

Seems like you totally forget me. 
Would appreciated any feedback since you started working on it 1.5 years ago

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Running a powershell command line with the Quick Action menu

« Last post by superticker on September 19, 2025, 08:02 PM »

I'm trying to run a powershell command line using the Quick Action menu, but although the Quick Action menu invokes powershell okay, it fails to act on the parameters passed to it. How should the Quick Action configuration for this command line be constructed so powershell gets its parameters?

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Screenshot Captor / Post-BSOD issue

« Last post by Jose Hidalgo on September 18, 2025, 11:28 AM »

[After 3 weeks without a reply, I decided to just delete the topic]

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Trying to export a clip as a .csv text file

« Last post by superticker on September 18, 2025, 09:05 AM »

I made some progress. The term ClipText must be included on the Backup/Maintenance panel's Exporting configuration blank as one continuous word without spaces. But the resulting .csv file has problems. The term ClipText is included at the top of the file's payload--see excerpt below. I don't want that. How can I exclude that?

In addition, the contents of the clip itself are in quotes--see below: "Symbol, Qua ... 4.19784572969458"
I don't want that either. How can I exclude these encapsulating quotes?

[Select]

ClipText
"Symbol,Quantity,Order Price
BAP,100,278.4762874406207
SAIC,400,102.89381320117934
CRGY,4600,8.774848356172875
FIVE,300,148.7625073662082
PSN,500,82.95472576942313
BRFS,9500,4.19784572969458"

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Trying to export a clip as a .csv text file

« Last post by superticker on September 17, 2025, 08:10 PM »

I'm trying to export a clip as a .csv text file.

For the Exporting field configuration on the Backup/Maintenance panel, I have entered Clip Text.
But when I try to export the selected clip with "Edit > Export selected clips .." I get the error:

Error DBG109: DBISAM Engine Error # 11949 SQL parsing error
- Expect column name but instead found "Clip Text" in SELECT SQL statement at line 1, column 8

How can I fix this?