Submitted to Cris Pearson, Larry Halff and Brian Caldwell on 20080329

Thmbnl + Skitch + Ma.gnolia

Hey Cris & Brian,

Was reading this post:

http://blog.skitch.com/2008/03/27/fun-with-skitch/what-are-you-doing-when-you-skitch/

...and had a thought.

Dunno if you saw it, but Larry recently released a simple, mostly headless app (a la Fire Eagle) for taking screenshots of webpages. Well, given that that post is about "what you do with Skitch", it occurred to me that being able to pump a URL into Skitch and have a it take a full screenshot, or even a 1024x768 screenshot that I can tweak and crop and then have it get sent to Thmbnl would be pretty awesome. It'd be a bit like Web Snapper (which I use, though I'd prefer to do it all with Skitch!) but being able to have more fine grain control.

So, if I dragged a URL from Safari or Firefox, or clicked a toolbar button in the browser, Skitch could immediately grab a shot of the webpage. I think this could be incredibly useful, both for personal annotation, as well for filling out the Thmbnl database.

I'm interested in this particularly because the next step is to start using Skitch for saving webpage bookmarks to Ma.gnolia, complete with client-side screenshot capture!

Flow: see a webpage I want to bookmark, click a "Skitchmark This" button in my browser toolbar, Skitch grabs a screenshot of the webpage, I crop it, add a couple tags (which would be great for Flickr, anyway) and I push it up to Ma.gnolia. The image gets sent to Thmbnl, and appears alongside the Ma.gnolia bookmark record.

What do you think?

Bonus feature: for individual tweet URLs, you'd precrop like you do with clicked Apple windows to have a specific border width around the quote (like I do with the tweets I send to Flickr).

What do you think? Skitch seems ideal for visual bookmarking alonside Ma.gnolia and Thmbnl!

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