MacOS

Dump the Shift-CMD-Who-can-remember: Two Easier Ways to Take Mac Screenshots

Quick: what does Shift-CMD-6 do? Or Shift-CMD-Ctrl-3?

Screenshot of Screenshot App by Author

If you looked at the screenshot above, you might have muttered “Yeah, yeah, CMD-Shift-5, what else ya got?”

You got me. Yes, that’s what you get with CMD-Shift-5 and almost everybody knows that — well, I hope almost everybody knows it. But you might not know that you can get that same screen by running the actual Snapshot app from Applications->Utilities. You can summon that with CMD-Spacebar followed by typing “Sc” and probably not much more. I think that’s easier to remember and easier on my arthritic fingers, but there’s more we could do.

Let’s get rid of that ridiculous CMD-Shift-5 entirely. I made it Option-S instead. Maybe you use “ß” (what Option-S does by default when writing), but I don’t, so I changed the keyboard shortcut to use that. Option-S *might* be a hotkey in some app, but I can’t remember app specific hotkeys anyway.

Screenshot of Keyboard Shortcuts by Author

Yeah, Option-S is better for me. I can then choose what kind of action I want — record the screen, a window…