Screenshots that file themselves
Turn on a project. Every capture lands in its folder. No dragging, no renaming.
Screenshots pile up on the Desktop. A week into a project, the screenshots for it are mixed in with everything else. Finding them means sorting by date and guessing.
Projects fix this at the moment of capture, not afterwards.
Start one in ten seconds
Open the Frayo menu, choose Project, then New Project…. Type a name, like "Website Redesign". Click Create.
That is the setup. The menu now reads "Project: Website Redesign", and Frayo has made a real folder for it at Pictures › Frayo › Website Redesign.
From here on, every screenshot and recording is saved as usual and also copied into that folder.
Switching
Work on two things in a day? Open the Project menu and pick the other one. A checkmark shows which is active. Choose No Project when you are done, and captures stop going into a folder. Show in Finder opens the project folder.
The folder is a normal folder
There is no special format. Open it in Finder, drag it into an email, zip it, or move it into iCloud Drive or Google Drive so it is on your other devices. The files are PNGs, recordings and GIFs, with readable names.
It follows your edits
Annotate a screenshot, and the project copy is updated. Rename it, and the project copy is renamed too. You do not end up with an original in one place and a marked-up version in another.
Projects are kept
Frayo removes old captures from the Library after a time you choose, 30 days by default. Captures in a project are exempt. They stay until you remove them. The same goes for bookmarks.
This also helps when you clean up. In the Library, select all and press ⌘⌫. Bookmarked and project captures are skipped, and a dialog says how many. You can include them if you mean to, and there is an Undo.
Catching up on old captures
Forgot to start a project? In the Library, right-click a capture and choose Move to Project. Or select a group of them and use the folder button in the bar that appears at the bottom. One capture belongs to one project, so moving it moves the copy.
Finding things later
Once you have a project, the Library gets a project filter next to the type and date filters: All Projects, No Project, or any one project. Combine it with the search field. Because Frayo reads the text in screenshots on your Mac, "checkout error" in the "Website Redesign" project is a one-line search.
Who this is for
- Designers and developers documenting a piece of work
- Support and QA, who capture one customer or one bug at a time
- Anyone building a how-to guide with lots of steps
- Anyone who has ever searched the Desktop for "that screenshot from the client call"
You do not need a system. You need one habit: start the project before you start the work.