# Learning hypershot shortcuts to supercharge your workflow

> Six defaults: capture, freeze, window, scroll, OCR, history

Keyboard shortcuts speed up your daily workflow. You stop *opening* the screenshot app. You just press a key, and seconds later you are sending your colleague a much-needed screenshot.

Here are the six most common shortcuts. They're the defaults — remap any of them in **Settings → Shortcuts**.

## The six that do a day's work

**Capture a region:** `⌘⇧2` on macOS or `Ctrl+Shift+3` on Windows. The workhorse. Drag, release, done. Everything in this post assumes you've already made this one muscle memory.

**Capture a window:** `⌘⇧W` on macOS or `Ctrl+Shift+W` on Windows. One press, hover, click. The whole app, title bar and all, desktop excluded. This is 80% of bug reports and documentation.

**Capture the full screen:** `⌘⇧1` on macOS or `Ctrl+Shift+1` on Windows. For when it's everything: the layout, the other windows, the state of the whole desk.

**Start frozen:** `⌘⇧X` on macOS or `Ctrl+Shift+X` on Windows. Opens the region selector with the screen already holding still. For moving targets: a cursor mid-drag, a menu that won't sit, an animation in progress. (Spot the need late? Press **Space** mid-selection to freeze the screen, and again to let it go.)

**Scrolling capture:** `⌘⇧J` on macOS or `Ctrl+Shift+J` on Windows. Select the part that scrolls, scroll like a human, and hypershot stitches the frames into one tall image. Long threads, long pages, long everything: one file instead of a staircase of seven.

**OCR:** `⌘⇧O` on macOS or `Ctrl+Shift+O` on Windows. Drag over the text, release, the text is on your clipboard. On-device — macOS's Vision framework, Windows's OCR APIs. No round trip to a server, no paste-into-a-web-OCR-tool detour.

*Drag out a region, let go, and the shot lands in the preview folder, ready to drop into a chat.*

## The one you'll use more than you think

**History:** `⌘⇧L` on macOS or `Ctrl+Shift+H` on Windows. That's the key that opens the capture preview folder — every recent capture, fanned out, ready to copy, drag, save, or reopen. The moment you've ever thought "where did that last screenshot go?" is the moment you learn this one.

## The small print that isn't small

Every one of these is a default. The point of a default is to be right enough to start with — if any of the six fights your fingers, change it in **Settings → Shortcuts**. And the delayed trio (`⌘⇧7`, `⌘⇧8` and `⌘⇧9` on macOS, the same numbers with Ctrl+Shift on Windows, for timed region, screen, and window) sits there for menus and tooltips that vanish before your hand arrives.

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From https://hypernuclear.com/blog/the-six-shortcuts/