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I love screenshots. When I’m not doing genealogy, I do technical support, and screenshots are my bread and butter. They are required for proving bug reports and useful for explaining things with fewer words.
In my genealogy work, I take screenshots often. They are not a replacement for proper documentation or citations, and you can’t steal someone’s photograph or any other work, but screenshots can be really useful as a static point of reference. They often need to be annotated so I don’t lose track of where the information came from. I use Snagit for this purpose. Snagit allows for customized hotkeys and many other settings, so all it takes is two keypresses to snap a picture of something for later.