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Guides & How-To

Practical, step-by-step guides for building better screenshot habits — from organizing your first library to asking questions about what you saved.

How to Organize Screenshots on Chrome

Stop drowning in unnamed screenshot files. Here's how to build an organized, searchable screenshot library directly in Chrome.

How to Search Screenshots by Text

Your screenshots contain text. Here's how to make all of it searchable so you can find any screenshot by what's written in it.

How to Add Notes to Screenshots

Capture the "why" behind every screenshot. Notes keep context attached to images so you always know why you saved something.

How to Extract Text From Screenshots

Every Screenmarks screenshot has its text automatically extracted with OCR — no manual copying required.

How to Find Old Screenshots

The secret to finding old screenshots isn't a better folder system. It's making screenshots searchable by what's inside them.

How to Build a Screenshot Library

Turn a chaotic folder of captures into an organized, searchable knowledge base. Here's the setup that works.

How to Create Screenshot Collections

Group related screenshots into collections. Manual collections for curated sets, Live Collections that fill themselves automatically.

How to Take a Webpage Screenshot in Chrome

Capture the visible page or select the exact region you need, then make it searchable.

How to Organize Screenshots Automatically

Smart processing can handle titles, OCR, and searchable metadata for every screenshot — here's how to set it up.

How to Ask Questions About Your Screenshots

Select screenshots or a collection and ask focused questions about the context Screenmarks saved.