Builders, which app do you take the most screenshots in?
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Quick one for the builders here. During a normal workday, where do you actually capture the most, Figma, your browser, an IDE, Linear, somewhere else? I'm trying to map where the volume is, because where people take screenshots seems to matter more than where they paste them. Curious what your day looks like.
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Figma by a mile for me. I screenshot in-progress frames constantly to share context async — especially when you don't want to schedule a sync just to ask "does this feel right?" Browser second, usually when something's broken in a way that's hard to describe in words.
SlimSnap
@atherkildsen Figma's a sharp contrast to the browser-first answers I'm getting from devs, feels like capture source tracks your role pretty closely. The "broken in a way that's hard to describe in words" case is the one I keep coming back to, that's exactly where a screenshot does work text can't. When that hits, does it go to a teammate to eyeball, or do you ever hand it to an AI tool to act on?
Heym
Browser, by far. Most of my day is spent in Chrome going through user flows, checking UI states, and grabbing shots to document bugs or share context with the team. IDE comes second when I need to capture code snippets for reviews.
SlimSnap
@mbakgun Makes sense, browser's where the surface area is. The bug-documentation one is what I'm curious about: when you grab a UI-state shot for a bug, where does it usually land, straight into a ticket or Slack for the team, or do you ever hand it to an AI agent to act on? Trying to figure out how often these shots are for humans vs for tools.
ArkTabs
Microsoft Edge! Because, most of my tools are homemade or web based.
🙄 Then I use Arkida for making visual appearance more effective!
VS Code is second, terminal is 3rd.
SlimSnap
@nabeelalihashmi Browser keeps winning this thread, makes sense when the tooling is web-based. Thanks for the breakdown. Does the VS Code capture tend to be code snippets, or something you're checking visually?
ArkTabs
@bickov well, at core it is code snippet
but the purpose it to tell:
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Browser and IDE for me. Half debugging, half “future me will definitely understand this screenshot” lie.
SlimSnap
@sarveshsea Ha, the "future me will definitely get it" screenshot graveyard is painfully real. Browser + IDE keeps being the combo in here. Appreciate you adding it.