--- title: Is a tool for organizing developer screenshots worth... description: A developer shares their frustration with disorganized screenshots — error traces, terminal output, UI bugs, docs snippets — and reveals they've built a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/is-a-tool-for-organizing-developer-screenshots-worth-building-pfwc7laom twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Is a tool for organizing developer screenshots worth building | daily.dev og:description: A developer shares their frustration with disorganized screenshots — error traces, terminal output, UI bugs, docs snippets — and reveals they've built a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/is-a-tool-for-organizing-developer-screenshots-worth-building-pfwc7laom og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PFWc7lAoM.png og:image:alt: Is a tool for organizing developer screenshots worth building og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Is a tool for organizing developer screenshots worth building **[Dev Tools](https://daily.dev/sources/devtools)** · [@webdev_raj](https://daily.dev/webdev_raj) · 1 min read · 5 upvotes · 4 comments ## Summary A developer shares their frustration with disorganized screenshots — error traces, terminal output, UI bugs, docs snippets — and reveals they've built a working prototype to solve the problem. Before investing more time, they're seeking honest community feedback on whether this is a real pain point, how others currently cope, and whether such a tool would genuinely fit into developer workflows. ## Content **Mine was a disaster. Random screenshots of**: - Error stack traces I meant to fix "later" - Terminal output I needed to reference - UI bugs I screenshots mid-debug - Stack Overflow / docs snippets - Figma/design refs from PRs **All unsearchable, all unsorted, scrolling forever to find the one I need.** I built a working prototype that solves this but before I go further,** I want honest feedback on the idea itself, not just "nice work" comments.** - Is this an actual problem for you, or something you've never really thought about? - How do you currently deal with it — folders, search, nothing, just scroll and suffer? - Would something like this genuinely fit into your workflow, or does it feel unnecessary? **Brutal feedback welcome** including "I wouldn't use this and here's why." Trying to figure out if this is worth pushing further before I sink more time into it. ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@agustinbarrientos** · 1 upvotes > Try capturing the source URL automatically and flagging duplicate screenshots before adding anything else **@springtofigh** · 0 upvotes > Totally agree👌This tool is really needed for the reasons you mentioned (unsearchable, unsorted, etc.). I can remember a few years ago I used Google Translate's image-to-text ability to convert code from a screenshot to text, because I was too tired to write the code from the shot and store it somewhere😅 ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [My local LLM now names and sorts every screenshot I take, and I'll never manually organize them again](https://daily.dev/posts/my-local-llm-now-names-and-sorts-every-screenshot-i-take-and-i-ll-never-manually-organize-them-agai-c2jhagn6w) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [How a frustrating school project led me to build my first CLI tool.](https://daily.dev/posts/how-a-frustrating-school-project-led-me-to-build-my-first-cli-tool--difkziglc) · Medium · 27 upvotes · 1 comments - [We needed a screenshot pipeline; we got a design QA tool instead](https://daily.dev/posts/we-needed-a-screenshot-pipeline-we-got-a-design-qa-tool-instead-9mjwuqrug) · Calibre · 41 upvotes · 0 comments - [Self-updating screenshots](https://daily.dev/posts/self-updating-screenshots-6qhtiffea) · Hacker News · 4 upvotes · 1 comments --- Tags: [#devtools](https://daily.dev/tags/devtools), [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/is-a-tool-for-organizing-developer-screenshots-worth-building-pfwc7laom) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/is-a-tool-for-organizing-developer-screenshots-worth-building-pfwc7laom","headline":"Is a tool for organizing developer screenshots worth building","text":"A developer shares their frustration with disorganized screenshots — error traces, terminal output, UI bugs, docs snippets — and reveals they've built a working prototype to solve the problem. 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