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Copy and paste a screenshot in seconds ​

For: anyone who needs to show a colleague, a client or a support desk what is on their screen right now, without a trip through an editor first.

"Here's what I'm seeing" should take one hotkey, not a screenshot tool, a save dialog and an upload button. The shot usually goes into a chat, an email or a ticket, and all it needs to be is the right region, at full size, on the clipboard.

The flow ​

  1. Press Ctrl+Shift+1. The screen freezes.
  2. Drag the region you want. The shot opens large, with the markup tools along the top and a note box beside it.
  3. Press Copy, or Ctrl+C. The screenshot is on the clipboard as an image.
  4. Paste it into Teams, Slack, an email or a ticket.
  5. The window closes. The shot is kept under ~/QACut/Quick/ if you need it again.

No note is needed for a person. The note box is there for the times you hand a shot to an AI agent instead.

Step 2: the shot opens large, with the tools along the top and the note beside it.
Step 2: the shot opens large, with the tools along the top and the note beside it.

What you get ​

An image on the clipboard, pasted straight into whatever you were writing. The same shot is also saved on disk, in a batch folder under ~/QACut/Quick/ named for when the batch started:

C:\Users\nick\QACut\Quick\2026-09-19_101512\01.png

A notes.md in the folder lists every shot in the batch, and any note you did type sits beside its shot as a small markdown file. So the screenshot you pasted into a chat this morning is still there this afternoon when someone asks for it again.

Tips ​

  • Each new quick shot joins the open batch, and the note box header counts them, so a morning's screenshots end up in one folder rather than scattered across the desktop.
  • Every default hotkey can be changed under Keyboard shortcuts… in the tray. If another app already owns Ctrl+Shift+1, QACut reports it and the rest still apply.
  • Copy writes any marks you drew into the file first, so the saved shot matches what you pasted.
  • Type a note first and Copy prints it in a band under the picture. Copy for agent (Ctrl+Shift+A) is the agent version: the path and the note as text.

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