Shot and Tell

Shot and Tell takes a screenshot and lets you annotate it. Drop a numbered marker on something, draw an arrow at it, or box a whole section off. Type a line against each number, and you get back one image with the legend beside it.

WHAT IT’S FOR

“The button on the right — no, the other one, above the total” is a sentence nobody should have to write. Put a number on the thing instead, say what’s wrong with it underneath, and there is nothing left to misread.

Who’s reading it doesn’t change much:

An AI agent gets the picture and the words together. A number on the screenshot and the same number in the prompt says exactly which part you mean, so it understands you straight away.

A colleague gets the design feedback, the bug report or the “check this before it ships” as one image — and every point already has a number to reply to.

A customer or a supplier gets “here’s the screen, here’s the field I mean”, with anything that isn’t their business blacked out before the image leaves your Mac.

HOW IT GOES

1. Press ⌃⇧S from any app, click the Dock icon, or pick New Capture from the menu bar. Drag out a region, click a window, or take a whole screen. Space swaps between dragging and picking a window, and a magnifier shows the exact pixel under the crosshair so you land on an edge rather than near it. There’s a 3, 5 or 10 second timer for when you need a menu open first.

2. Mark it up. Drop a numbered marker, drag out an arrow, or box off a whole area — each one gets the next number in the sequence. The cursor lands in the legend row the moment a mark does, so you type the description straight away and move on.

3. Drag redaction blocks over anything that shouldn’t leave your machine.

4. Copy & Close puts the finished image on the clipboard and saves a PNG. Paste it into a prompt, a pull request, a ticket, a chat or an email. Paste into a text field instead and the words arrive on their own.

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