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Screenshots & Recording

The Screenshots pinboard

Coming in the next update

Every capture is kept in a pinboard called Screenshots in your clipboard history, where you can find, preview, drag and reuse it from the clipboard strip or the Clipboard tab.

Goblin doesn't keep a separate list of captures. Each one becomes a clip in your clipboard history, and every capture is also pinned into a pinboard named Screenshots. So everything you can do with clipboard history works on your captures: search, preview, drag out, paste, share, sync.

This needs the Clipboard switched on (SettingsClipboard). While it is off, captures are only files on disk.

Find an old capture#

  1. Right-click Goblin's menu bar item and choose Image & PDF ToolsOpen Capture History.
  2. The main window opens on the Clipboard tab with the Screenshots pinboard selected. It is a gallery with larger pictures.
  3. Use the filter at the top (All, Screenshots or Recordings; GIFs count as recordings), or search.
  4. Double-click a card to use it, drag it into another app, or right-click it for the same menu the strip has.

You can also open the pinboard in other ways:

  • The strip. Press Show Clipboard (⇧⌘V by default) and pick the Screenshots pinboard. It shows a camera in its color instead of a plain dot.
  • From capture. goblin capture history and the goblin://capture/history link open the window on that pinboard too.
The clipboard strip along the bottom of the screen with the Screenshots pinboard selected and its camera icon
The strip with the Screenshots pinboard selected.

A recording or GIF card shows its first frame and its length, and plays, muted and looping, while the pointer is over it. A very tall picture, such as a scrolling capture, shows its top with a Tall badge. A card with no title is named for what it is: Screenshot, Scrolling capture, Recording or GIF.

The Clipboard tab of the main window on the Screenshots pinboard, showing a grid of screenshots and recordings with the All, Screenshots and Recordings filter
The Screenshots pinboard in the main window, as a gallery.

Searching the clipboard also finds the text in a screenshot, because Goblin reads the words in pictures as it saves them.

Reuse the last capture#

Three items in the Image & PDF Tools submenu of the right-click menu on Goblin's menu bar item work on the latest capture:

  • Annotate Last Screenshot opens it in the annotation editor.
  • Pin Last Screenshot floats it on screen above your other windows.
  • Restore Last Capture brings back its Quick Access card, whatever kind of capture it was. It is dimmed when the file is gone.

goblin capture last annotate|pin|restore does the same, and goblin capture list prints the latest captures (with --json for scripts).

Turn capture history on or off#

  1. Open SettingsCaptureGeneral.
  2. Find the History section.
  3. Switch Keep captures in the Screenshots pinboard on or off.
SettingWhat it doesDefault
Keep captures in the Screenshots pinboardPins every screenshot, scrolling capture, recording and GIF into the Screenshots pinboard, so your capture history is kept like any pinboard: it syncs, can be shared, and isn't removed by Keep History.On

You can rename the pinboard or move it. If you delete it, it only comes back when you turn the setting off and on again. If the Clipboard itself is off, the section says captures are only added to history while Clipboard is on.

Captures follow the clipboard's privacy rules. An app set to Don't save in SettingsClipboardPrivacy keeps its screenshot file but doesn't get it added to history. Anything you haven't pinned follows Keep History, the Trash and Clear history when Goblin quits.

Screenshot to History#

A separate shortcut takes a screenshot straight into history without a card.

  1. Open SettingsClipboardShortcuts. Find Screenshot to History.
  2. Use the default ⌃⇧5, or click the field and record another one.
  3. Press the shortcut, then select an area or a window. It is saved, with its text read, without touching your clipboard.

Also copy the screenshot, just below it, changes that. It is a clipboard shortcut, so it works even when the capture shortcuts are switched off.

Related

Quick AccessComing in the next updateThe small card that appears after every capture: copy, save, edit, upload, pin or delete it from there, and set where the cards sit and how long they stay.Taking screenshotsComing in the next updateTake a screenshot of an area, a window, the whole screen, a long scrolling page or the text on screen, with a self-timer for menus and hover states.Recording and the video editorComing in the next updateRecord an area or the whole screen as video or a GIF, with sound, a camera, cursor effects and keystrokes, then trim and zoom the result in the video editor.The goblin commandInstall the goblin command, then browse, open, stop and restart dev servers from Terminal, script them with JSON, and reach the firewall, Keep Awake and the clipboard.