Sequencing the captures as shown in your video is a great idea--allows the person making the screenshots to stay in storytelling flow.<p>After that, I find the easy publishing, commenting, and one click round trip annotation features of Skitch to be extremely compelling: <a href="http://skitch.com/" rel="nofollow">http://skitch.com/</a><p>For the part that comes after taking the screenshot, Skitch offers a particularly slick workflow without the separate Preview app.<p>Since both your app and Skitch allow one click capturing with a history of captures, perhaps you could emphasize the storytelling aspect of your approach. Maybe they own the mindshare for annotated image discussions, but you own the category of screenshot sequences.<p>Ideas: Eliminate subsequent capture button clicks until clicking Done. Drag to select and snap, use a key to switch between marquee rectangle and gui control? Show frames as a filmstrip while capturing. Flow the other commenting and annotation steps.<p>PS. It's a different situation, but just yesterday I had to crop a dozen very high resolution JPEGs into 3 or 4 separate images each, and was disappointed that Preview couldn't just mark all the crops I wanted at once. Maybe yours could allow multiple rectangles at once, then "screenshot" them all at once.
I like the project but I think you definitely need a new description for it. "The easiest way to reply" doesn't mean anything to me. Reply to what and to whom?
From your demo, I learned that Preview now has annotations that allows you to draw arrows and circles on images. Very handy -- don't know how I never saw that before.
I think this is very cool. I could see myself using this to storyboard and document app flows. One thing that's not totally clear to me in the demo video is exactly what I can capture. It looks similar to Grab, where you can select any area you want and capture. It would be great if you could also capture an entire browser window by clicking on it, as with Grab.
Hey freshlog,
I am doing a podcast about various ideas/projects/stuff that HN members are working on.<p>Interested in being on one of the episodes?<p>I put up the first episode and am pivoting based on the feedback I got from the HN community: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1379942" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1379942</a><p>If you are interested, email me: marc {at} ideatin {dot} com<p>The same applies to anyone else doing anything productive, that would like to do the same.
This looks like the perfect cute animal and story mail creator that my mother and her friends will send around, and I don't mean that in a bad way at all. You may want to look at that market.
Nice. Is it only available for the Mac? (and if so, why???)<p>The creation workflow looks really good. Pretty much everything you need without any excess features that nobody would actually use.<p>The presentation piece looks like it's still under construction. I'd expect to see a powerpoint-style slideshow instead of a simple HTML dump of the whole thing.<p>I also liked the irony of presenting the workflow for your screenshot workflow tool as a video!
I like this, and would use it. Haven't researched your competitor's offerings, but you seem to have a good grasp on what I would need to quickly and efficiently create screen shots. My use case is creating a 'story' for task instructions involving multiple steps, one screen for each step. Nice work.