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I Love Me Some Skitch!

Patrick Reagan
Patrick Reagan, Development Director, January 29, 2009 4

I'm a late adopter, it's true. I have a cell phone from earlier this century, I only just upgraded to Leopard in the last 3 months, and I'm just now discovering the usefulness of Skitch. It rocks!

Everyone knows about the web posting functionality, but for me I find drag & drop to be the most useful feature – especially when paired with the Blogging Bundle in TextMate. If you don't have it installed, grab it with the GetBundles bundle (Al3x has a good write-up on this):

Text Mate — get Bundles

Once you're set up to post to your blog, you can easily drop in an annotated screen capture:

Meta Skitch

If you're not already blogging with TextMate, go do it now (if you're using Expression Engine, we've got you covered). If you're not using Skitch to quickly embed images, you should give it a shot.

Posted in Tips and Tricks and Tools of the Trade on 01/29/09 4 comments
Anthony Armendariz said on 01/29 at 10:29 AM

Skitch’s drag and drop functionality is extremely useful especially for adding to my favorite organizer, Evernote. The biggest problem with skitch, other than it’s less than ideal aesthetic design, is it’s inabiliy/hidden ability to capture an entire browser window. Capturing an entire window, without the chrome and need to use the drag selection tool, would be my dream come true.

Trey Piepmeier said on 01/29 at 09:25 PM

I’m kind of surprised you’re not writing your posts in Markdown or Textile. :)

Patrick Reagan said on 01/30 at 03:12 PM

@Anthony: I haven’t had a need to do a full screen capture like that too much, but I agree that the drag & select option is a pretty lame way to have to do it.

@Trey: Yea, you got me.  With Doug’s help we were able to get EE set up just right to allow us to post through TextMate - I’m worried that adding anything else to the mix would shift the cosmic balance between all the blogs ;)

Trevor Gerzen said on 01/30 at 04:02 PM

I personally prefer LittleSnapper (http://www.realmacsoftware.com/littlesnapper) by RealMacSoftware (http://www.realmacsoftware.com/). It’s got the same drag-and-drop functionality but to me it just looks and feels better to use.
@Anthony LittleSnapper will take pictures of entire webpages with it’s built in browser that is based on WebKit (Safari) and will also allow you to pinpoint particular items by basically walking the DOM (one of my favorite features).

Disclaimer: I do not work for RealMacSoftware :)

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