Gallery and search
Browse every snip in the gallery, search OCR text and window details, filter by status, content, size and date, sort, and pick a card size.
On this page (9 sections)
The gallery is Snipdeck’s main window: every snip you capture is a card here. You take new snips, search and filter from the toolbar; the status bar at the bottom holds the counts, the sort order and the card size. Clicking a card brings the snip on screen, and right-clicking opens every action.
Window layout
From top to bottom, the main window has three parts:
- Toolbar: new snip, collage, colour picker, search box, filter, hiding on-screen snips, and the ⋯ menu.
- Grid: the cards. While a filter is active, a strip under the toolbar shows the active filters.
- Status bar: the counts on the left, Sort and the card size on the right.
The grid fits as many cards per row as the window width allows and reflows as you resize the window. Only the rows on screen are built, and each card loads its thumbnail when it comes into view, so the gallery stays smooth however many snips it holds.
Toolbar
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| New | Takes a new snip. Its arrow opens a menu: Take a new snip, Snip + Clip and Clip only, each with its hotkey. |
| Collage | Opens the collage editor. |
| Pick color | Picks a colour from anywhere on screen; a magnifier follows the cursor and a click takes the colour under it. |
| Search box | Takes the rest of the row. Ctrl+F focuses it, Esc clears it. |
| Filter | Opens the filter panel. With filters active it shows their count, for example Filter · 2. |
| Eye button | Hides or shows every on-screen snip (Win+Alt+H; Super+Alt+H on Linux). |
| ⋯ | Settings that rarely change, and bulk deletion. |
In a narrow window, Collage, Pick color and Filter drop their labels and show only their icons. For capture methods and hotkeys, see Capture shortcuts.
The ⋯ menu
| Item | What it does |
|---|---|
| Floating snips in the taskbar | Whether floating snips appear in window lists; see Floating snips. |
| Dark theme | Switches between the light and dark theme. |
| Launch at Login | Starts Snipdeck when you log in. |
| Language | Picks the interface language; see Languages and localization. |
| Upload to | Where Upload sends a snip; see Sharing and export. |
| Clear unpinned snips | Deletes every snip that is not pinned. |
| Clear all snips | Deletes every snip, pinned ones included. |
| About Snipdeck | Version and links. |
Both clear items open a confirmation that says how many snips will go. Only the Delete button goes ahead; Cancel, Esc or a click outside backs out.
What a card shows
Each card shows the snip’s thumbnail at its true aspect ratio over a theme-aware checkerboard. Below it are two lines:
| Element | What it shows |
|---|---|
| First line | The title of the window the snip was taken from. Without window details, the capture date. |
| Second line | Date · monitor. When the first line already shows the date, only the monitor. |
| Bottom right | The snip’s size in pixels, for example 1920×1080. |
Status badges appear in the top-left corner of the thumbnail:
| Badge | Meaning |
|---|---|
pinned | The snip is pinned and survives “Clear unpinned snips”. |
on screen | The snip is currently open as a floating window. |
OCR | The snip’s text has been read and added to search. |
Working with cards
Click: bring on screen or hide
Clicking a card opens or closes the snip’s floating window. If the snip is not on screen, it opens as a floating snip; if it already is, it is hidden. The on screen badge and the count in the status bar update to match.
Hover: card buttons
Hover a card and four buttons appear in the bottom-right corner of the thumbnail:
| Button | Action |
|---|---|
| Copy | Copies the snip image to the clipboard. |
| Save | Opens a save dialog; you choose the format and the folder. |
| Pin | Pins or unpins the snip; the button is highlighted while the snip is pinned. |
| Trash | Deletes the snip. |
Right-click: every action
Right-clicking a card opens the same menu as right-clicking a floating snip. The strip at the bottom of the menu says what the item under the pointer does.
- Copy: copies the image to the clipboard.
- OCR + Clipboard: reads the text and copies it. Beside it is the engine that reads the text:
Win OCRon Windows,tesseracton Linux. - OCR + Translate: opens the translation popup.
- Pick color (hint: eyedropper): picks a colour from this snip with the magnifier.
- Share: the Windows share sheet (Windows only), a new email with the snip attached, opening it in the system image editor, and uploading to an image host. See Sharing and export.
- Transform: rotate 90° left or right, rotate 180°, flip horizontally or vertically.
- Annotate: opens the annotation editor.
- Crop and Resize: if the snip is not on screen, it opens as a floating window first.
- Hide from screen and Delete.
On a floating snip the menu also has Show Snipdeck, which brings the main window to the front.
Search
The search box placeholder lists what it searches: text / OCR / window / monitor / path. The grid filters as you type; the × button in the box or Esc clears the search.
Search runs against a local index stored alongside your snips, so it finds content that is not visible on the card. One query is matched across all of these fields:
| Field | Example |
|---|---|
| OCR text | Words read from inside the screenshot by OCR |
| Window title | The title bar text of the captured window |
| App name | The application’s display name |
| Process name | The executable’s process name, for example firefox |
| Executable path | The full path of the application the snip was taken from |
| Monitor label | The monitor the snip came from |
| Size | The pixel size as WxH, for example 1920x1080 |
How matching works
Snipdeck splits the query into pieces at every character that is not a letter or digit. Each piece must match the start of a word, and all pieces must match for a snip to show. So inv rec finds a snip whose text contains both “invoice” and “receipt”, in any order.
Search ignores case and accents, and it folds Turkish letters too: isik finds a snip containing “ışık”.
OCR text and window details are added in the background after a capture. A snip you just took may not match an OCR search until its text has been read.
Filters
The Filter button opens four groups in one panel: Status, Content, Size and Date. Pick one option per group; All turns that group off. The panel stays open while you choose.
Every active filter shows as a chip in the strip under the toolbar. Removing a chip turns off that filter alone; Clear filters at the end of the strip turns them all off. Filters and search apply together: a snip must meet all of them to show.
Status
| Option | Shows |
|---|---|
| All | Every snip (default) |
| Pinned | Only pinned snips |
| Unpinned | Only snips that are not pinned |
| On screen | Snips currently open as a floating window |
| Hidden | Snips not on screen |
Content
| Option | Shows |
|---|---|
| All | Every snip (default) |
| Has OCR | Snips whose text has been read |
| No OCR | Snips whose text has not been read |
| Has window | Snips with recorded details of the window they came from |
| No window | Snips without window details |
Size
| Option | Rule |
|---|---|
| All | Every snip (default) |
| Small | Under 250,000 pixels |
| Medium | 250,000 to 1,000,000 pixels |
| Large | 1,000,000 pixels or more |
| Wide | Width more than 1.3 times the height |
| Tall | Height more than 1.3 times the width |
| Square | Long side at most 1.2 times the short side |
Date
| Option | Shows |
|---|---|
| All | Every snip (default) |
| Today | Captured today (your local calendar day) |
| 24 hours | Captured in the last 24 hours |
| 7 days | Captured in the last 7 days |
| 30 days | Captured in the last 30 days |
Status bar
The bar at the bottom of the window holds the counts on the left and the view settings on the right.
| Item | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Total | Snips in the gallery |
| Pinned | Pinned snips |
| On screen | Floating windows currently open |
| Filtered | How many cards are shown while a search, filter or sort is active |
| Storage size | Total disk space taken by snip images |
Snips are stored on disk as lossless WebP.
Sort
The Sort button opens a list upward:
| Option | Order |
|---|---|
| Newest | Newest first (default). Pinned snips also stay at the top in this order. |
| Oldest | Oldest first |
| Pinned | Pinned snips first, then newest |
| Largest | Largest pixel area first |
| Smallest | Smallest pixel area first |
| Width | Widest first |
| Height | Tallest first |
| Monitor | Grouped by monitor, newest first within each group |
Card size
The S / M / L control at the far right of the status bar shows cards small, medium or large. The number of cards per row changes with it, and your choice is kept.
Empty gallery
With no snips yet, the grid is replaced by a message saying how to take one. It depends on your desktop: Win + left mouse on Windows, Super+Alt + drag on GNOME, and the New button or a hotkey elsewhere.
See also
- Floating snips: the windows a card click brings on screen
- OCR (text recognition): how the text behind search is read
- Sharing and export: the Share buttons in the right-click menu
- Keyboard and mouse shortcuts: including
Ctrl+Ffor search
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