The Library
The Library is a window listing every capture Bigshot knows about: every Project's captures and the session captures, grouped by day.
Open it with ⌃⌥O, Library… in the menu bar, or the Library button in Expanded View. The window remembers its size and position. Settings opens in the same window.
Sidebar
- All Captures
- Session Captures: captures taken with no Active Project
- Projects: each Project with its colour and count. Expand a Project to see its tags; click a tag to show only its captures.
- Settings: General, Projects, Shortcuts, Licence. See Settings.
Browsing
- Captures are grouped under Today, Yesterday, then dates.
- Sort Newest first or Oldest first.
- The slider sets the thumbnail size.
- Each thumbnail carries its Project's colour.
- Hover a card for Open in Editor, Show in Finder and Move to Trash.
Search
The search field matches file names, notes, tag names, source app, web address, OCR text and Project names. Every word you type has to match somewhere. Case and accents are ignored. Captures only have OCR text if the Project has Extract text (OCR) on.
Selecting
| Action | Result |
|---|---|
| Click | Select one |
| ⌘-click | Add or remove one |
| ⇧-click | Select a range |
| ⌘A | Select all |
| Click a day's title | Select that day. ⌘ or ⇧ adds it. Click again to deselect. |
| Drag from empty space | Select what the rectangle touches. ⇧ adds, ⌘ flips. |
| Arrow keys | Move the selection. ⇧ extends it. |
| Click empty space | Deselect |
| Double-click / Return | Open in the editor |
| Space | Quick Look |
| Delete | Move to the Trash |
Point at a screenshot and press a key to act on it without selecting it first. When the pointer is on a selected screenshot, the key acts on the whole selection.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| S | Select or deselect it |
| T | Tag it |
| P | Move it to a Project. 1–9 picks a Project, 0 the Session. |
| K | Keep / Don't keep |
| E | Open in the editor |
| ⌘C | Copy |
Acting on a selection
The toolbar acts on everything selected:
- Show in Finder
- Copy
- Share
- Keep / Don't keep. A mixed selection becomes all kept.
- Export… copies the files to a folder you choose, starting in Downloads. Existing files are never overwritten.
- Move to Trash
The context menu adds Open in Editor, Quick Look, Screenshot Context… (one Project capture), Move to Project ▸ and Tags ▸.
Most actions show a notice for a few seconds with Undo or Show in Finder.
The inspector
With captures selected, the inspector shows their Project and a tag field. Type to add a tag, or to create one; click a tag's × to remove it. When only some of the selection carry a tag, it is drawn dimmed and dashed; adding it gives it to all of them.
Organising
Moving between Projects
Use Move to Project in the context menu, the inspector, the editor's file card or a thumbnail's chip, or drag captures onto a Project in the sidebar.
- The file moves into the target Project's
.screenshots/folder, or to the Desktop for Session Captures. - Tags go with it by name, and are created in the target Project if needed.
- Moving to Session Captures removes all tags, since session captures cannot be tagged.
- The target Project's Hooks do not run on a moved capture.
- A move can be undone from the notice.
Moving needs a Licence.
Tags
A tag is your name for a piece of work: a bug, a feature, a branch. Tags belong to a Project. A capture can carry several.
- A new capture gets the Project's active tag, chosen in the island's tag pill.
- Add or remove tags afterwards from the Library inspector, the Tags menu, a thumbnail's chip, or the editor.
- Drag captures onto a tag in the sidebar to tag them. If they belong to another Project they move into the tag's Project first; hold ⌥ while dropping to tag them without moving.
- Archive a tag in Settings › Projects › Edit › Task tags. Archived tags leave the pickers but stay on the captures that have them, and remain searchable. Typing an archived tag's name restores it.
Tags are also how you point an agent at a set of screenshots. See Projects.
Keep and automatic cleanup
Bigshot can move old captures to the Trash for you. Set how long in Settings › General › Keep screenshots:
- 5 minutes, 60 minutes, 1 day, 1 week, or Forever (the default).
A Project can override this under Move old captures to Trash in its settings, or inherit the global choice.
Keep exempts a capture from cleanup. Turn it on from a thumbnail's right-click menu, the Library toolbar, or the Screenshot Context dialog. Kept captures still go when you delete them yourself.
Cleanup runs at launch, when the setting changes, and every minute. It skips any capture open in the editor, being shared, or with a Hook running. Files go to the Trash, so a capture removed too soon can be put back from there.
Session captures
Captures taken with no Active Project are saved to the Desktop. Bigshot remembers the most recent 50 across relaunches, so the island and the Library still show them. Older ones drop off the list, but their files stay on the Desktop. A file you delete or move yourself disappears from the list.