Settings
Open Settings with Settings… (⌘,) in the menu bar, or the gear in Expanded View. Settings opens in the Library window, at the foot of its sidebar, with four pages.
General
LLM Connections
Claude Code, Codex CLI, Anthropic API and OpenAI API. See Hooks.
Capture
| Setting | Options | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Capture mode | Display, Window, Area, Smart, Frame | Area |
| Redaction | Pixelate, Blur | Pixelate |
| Show preview after capture | On / Off | On |
| Preview duration | 3, 5, 8, 15 or 30 seconds, Until dismissed | 8 seconds |
| Save location | Desktop (Projects save in their own folder) | — |
| Keep screenshots | 5 minutes, 60 minutes, 1 day, 1 week, Forever | Forever |
Behavior
| Setting | Default |
|---|---|
| Launch at login | Set during setup |
Code map
Shown with a Licence.
| Setting | Default |
|---|---|
| Image model | Not installed |
| Code editor | The first one installed |
The image model lets a Project's Code map match screenshots on what they look like, not only their text, so Code Lens finds icons, images and charts. It runs on this Mac and nothing is uploaded. Download fetches it once (390 MB); the GPU prepares about 240 MB more the first time it runs, about 630 MB in all, which the row shows once it is installed. Remove deletes both. Code maps keep matching on text without it.
Updates
| Setting | Default |
|---|---|
| Check for updates automatically | On |
With it on, Bigshot checks at launch and once a day. When a new version is out the page reads Bigshot x.y is available with Download, and the menu bar gains Download Bigshot x.y…. Check Now checks by hand.
Projects
The list of Projects, with Add Project…. Each row has Activate, Edit…, and Retry context once screenshot sharing has been turned on. The row's status line says whether sharing is set up, waiting for review, or how many screenshots agents can see.
Edit… opens:
- Project: name, colour, workspace, and Show in Finder for the screenshots folder
- Workspace setup: the scan and plan described in Projects
- Screenshot context: sharing, OCR, retention
- Task tags: edit, archive, restore, New tag…
- Hooks: see Hooks
- Make this the active Project
Shortcuts
The eight rebindable global shortcuts, Reset all, the keyboard tester, and Use ⇧⌘3 and ⇧⌘4 for Bigshot (off by default). Turning it on turns off ⌃⌥D and ⌃⌥A; Turn On brings one back. See Shortcuts.
Licence
Enter a key, see seat use, or deactivate this Mac. See Licence and updates.