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Capture History

After every capture, a preview folder appears in the corner of your screen showing your recent captures as thumbnail cards. It’s an intermediary step between capturing and editing — giving you quick access to act on screenshots without opening the editor.

When you take a capture (area, window, or screen), the captured image warps into a small folder icon in your chosen screen corner. The folder shows your most recent captures as stacked cards. Multi-frame captures show a frame-count badge on their card, so you can see at a glance which captures have extra frames to scrub.

State Description
Incoming The capture warps into the folder with a shader animation
Condensed Cards are tucked behind the folder with one thumbnail peeking out
Rollover Hover near the folder and cards slide out to the right
Expanded Cards fan upward in a parabolic arc for easy browsing

Each capture card in the expanded view offers these quick actions:

Action What It Does
Edit Opens the capture in the full editor
Save As… Save the image to a chosen location (PNG, JPEG, WebP)
Copy Copy the image to clipboard
Drag Drag the image directly into another app
Dismiss Remove the capture from the folder
Reveal in Finder Show the file in your file manager

Choose which corner the preview folder appears in:

Settings → Capture → Preview Folder Corner

Options: Bottom-left (default), Bottom-right, Top-left, Top-right

  • Click the × on a card to dismiss it
  • Close the entire folder from the system tray menu
  • The folder automatically dims when the editor is open

The preview folder tracks which screen your capture happened on and appears there. When idle, it follows your cursor to whichever monitor you move to.

  • The folder stays on top of other windows but passes clicks through to apps below when your cursor isn’t near it
  • Cards show a 4:3 thumbnail preview of each capture
  • The parabolic fan layout adapts to your screen height — more cards visible on larger displays
  • Dragging from a card works as a native OS drag (macOS and Windows)

See also: Area Capture | Window Capture | Screen Capture