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Re:Cool desktops don’t change by jjoonathan on Thursday June 16, 2022 @11:58PM (#31773966)
Agreed 100%. My core workflow is "snap a picture, draw on it." I deal with hardware, and the bandwidth with which this lets me get physical information into the computer is so far beyond any Markdown-based workflow that I can't go back. I suspect this result would hold for many non-software professions.

For now, I've settled on GoodNotes because it's good enough at PDF Backup, OCR Search, and drawing. I have given solid tries to Evernote, ZoomNotes, Concepts, and Notion, and they each are amazingly better than GoodNotes in at least one major respect, sometimes multiple, but none of them are good enough on those zero-compromise requirements and GoodNotes is. FWIW.

EDIT: Oh, while I'm flamebaiting, I also use my ipad camera to take pictures of screens. Life is too short to schlep screenshots between computers, especially the ancient ones that run scientific equipment (lots of 68000, XP on some recent ones). Printer emulators and java applets can get bent. Runs everywhere, my ass. Moore's Law has given us gigahertz and megapixels, and if I can use them to eliminate painful asinine pointless busywork that's my god-given right and nobody is going to convince me otherwise. Sometimes I even use my ipad camera to take a screenshot of something on my PC and toss it into the mix. Sue me.

Re:Cool desktops don’t change by spiderfarmer on Friday June 17, 2022 @02:57AM (#31774931)
Shift+CMD+5, adjust rectangle, CMD+C

Paste on your iPad

Clipboards are synced through iCloud.

Re:Cool desktops don’t change by 2Gkashmiri on Friday June 17, 2022 @06:56AM (#31776428)
kde connect does that, well with text atleast, you just do copy on your desktop/phone and paste on the other device because it keeps your clipboard in sync. now kde connect is even on IOS so basically all major operating systems now has cross compatibilty via kde connect which is cool.

if i had to share a screenshot from my laptop/phone, it is a matter of taking the screenshot and "sharing" via kde connect. take all of 3-5 seconds and this workflow is now available to everyone

Re:Cool desktops don’t change by jjoonathan on Friday June 17, 2022 @09:19AM (#31777701)
Nice, I'll have to give it a try!
Re:Cool desktops don’t change by jjoonathan on Friday June 17, 2022 @09:18AM (#31777693)
Windows. Thanks, though.