Quick Access Overlay and after-capture actions

Summary

Decide what happens after each screenshot. Copy it, save it or upload it, then open the editor, show a small preview card in a corner of the screen, or show nothing at all. Most captures are copy and paste or save and share, and for those the editor is a detour; the card keeps the next step one click away without getting in your way.

What you will be able to do

• Pick after-capture actions in Settings: copy the image, save it to your screenshot folder, or upload it with your default destination and copy the link. Any combination works.
• Choose what to show next: the editor (as today), the Quick Access Overlay, or nothing.
• Use the overlay card: Copy and Save in the middle, close, annotate and upload in the corners, and a click on the thumbnail opens the editor.
• Drag the thumbnail straight into a chat, a browser or a file manager.
• Take several captures in a row: the cards stack in the corner, newest closest, up to five.
• Let cards close on their own after 5, 10 or 30 seconds, or keep them until you close them.

How it works

• Actions run in a fixed order: save, copy, upload, then the editor or the card. With both copy and upload on, the link ends up on the clipboard.
• The card appears in a corner of the screen you captured (bottom-left unless you pick another). It never takes keyboard focus, and its timer waits while your pointer is over it.
• Copy, Save and Upload show their result right on the card: Copied, Saved, upload progress, then Link copied.
• Cards step aside during the next capture, so they never end up in it.
• Settings will not let you turn everything off, so every capture goes somewhere.

Platforms

• Windows: The card floats in a screen corner and stays out of recordings.
• macOS: The card floats in a screen corner and follows you across Spaces.
• Linux: The card works on X11 and on Wayland desktops with layer-shell, such as KDE Plasma, Sway, Hyprland and COSMIC. GNOME has no way to keep a card in a screen corner, so there Snim shows a desktop notification with the thumbnail and Copy, Save and Edit actions instead.

Not in this version

• No separate actions for area, window and full-screen captures.
• The OCR text snip and recordings keep their own flow; recordings join the overlay in a later phase.
• Pinning a capture as a floating, always-on-top image comes in a later phase.

Status

• After-capture actions: copy, save and upload, then the editor or nothing
• Quick Access Overlay on Windows, macOS, X11 and layer-shell Wayland
• Notification fallback on GNOME
• Extras: pinned screenshots and recordings in the overlay