Quick start

After installing and granting Screen Recording permission, Screenshot Ultra runs as a tiny aperture-iris icon in your menu bar.

#Your first capture

Press ⌃⌥⌘1. A crosshair cursor appears. Drag a rectangle. Let go.

You'll see three things happen at once:

• The image is on your clipboard — paste anywhere with ⌘V.
• A copy is saved to disk at ~/Pictures/ScreenshotUltra/.
• The Quick Tray pops up bottom-right with a thumbnail + actions: Copy / Text / Edit / Folder / Reveal / Pin / Discard. It auto-dismisses after 6 seconds.

That's it. From hotkey to "image in next app" is sub-100 ms warm.

#The full default keymap

Every binding is configurable in settings.toml — see Hotkeys.

#Add a silent flow

The defaults all show the Quick Tray. Want a silent flow too — just disk + clipboard, no UI? Open Preferences (⌃⌥⌘,) and fill in the silent slots:

[hotkeys]
silent_region     = "ctrl+alt+cmd+4"
silent_window     = "ctrl+alt+cmd+5"
silent_fullscreen = "ctrl+alt+cmd+6"

Click Apply. Within a second your new bindings are live; the tray-flow defaults (⌃⌥⌘1 etc.) are untouched.

#Wire up a shell sink

To pipe every capture somewhere — S3, your team's Slack, your own URL shortener — add a shell command. The captured file's path is $1:

[sinks]
shell = "rclone copy $1 s3:my-bucket/screenshots/"

Save. The next capture runs the command detached so slow uploaders never stall the capture pipeline. See Sinks for more.

#Where things live