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Notes on building a small, fast tool — workflow ideas, design decisions, honest comparisons, and the occasional retrospective.
Summarize Any Screenshot With AI (Privacy-Safe)
TL;DR: To summarize a screenshot with AI, you read the text out of the image and feed that text to a model for a short summary. The catch with most online image summarizers is that they upload your e…
How to Extract Text From a Screenshot on Mac
TL;DR: To extract text from a screenshot on Mac, open it in Preview or Photos, drag to select the text, and press ⌘C — that's Apple's Live Text, built into macOS Monterey and later, running on-device…
How to Add a Background to a Screenshot on Mac
TL;DR: To add a background to a screenshot on Mac, you style it like a product shot: drop it on a background colour or gradient, add padding so it floats, round the corners, and add a soft drop shado…
How to Blur a Screenshot on Mac (Redact Fast)
TL;DR: To blur a screenshot on Mac fast, open it in DrawShot, press B for the Blur tool, drag a box over the sensitive area (a password, API key, email, or face), and press ⌘S — that saves an annotat…
How to Annotate a Screenshot on Mac (Free, Native)
TL;DR: To annotate a screenshot on Mac for free, take the shot with ⌘⇧4 (region) or ⌘⇧3 (full screen), then click the floating thumbnail that appears in the bottom-right corner to open Markup — add a…
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