Gotta Watch Those Hotkey Combinations
Yesterday I was playing with Skitch and FlySketch and saw that when I tried to do a screen snap in Skitch with the hotkey Cmd-Shift-5, I got a lot of problems and then didn't get the snap I wanted. The screen seemed to freeze, I couldn't get it to stop, and then I hit Enter, and I got a snapshot, but it wasn't what I wanted. I was convinced that this was just a conflict in the two applications - both of which use some kind of hotkey combination for their behavior. Not a terrible thing, but I don't like these conflicts as they sacrifice stability, so I picked Skitch over FlySketch, and wanted to give it a shake.
Well... overnight I thought more about it and wondered if it were possible to get the kind of things I liked in Skitch in FlySketch. So I flipped open the laptop and started looking at the preferences of FlySketch. When I saw that it's full-screen snapshot hotkey was Cmd-Shift-5 I knew that I'd found the problem. So since I have FlySktech set to pop-up on Cmd-Ctrl-F, I made the full-screen snapshot in FlySktech be Cmd-Ctrl-Shift-F - something easy to remember. Then the Cmd-Shift-5 would be Skitch's and there would not be a problem.
Or so I had hoped.
So I fired up Skitch again and along with the newly-configured FlySketch I tried the Skitch snapshot - Cmd-Shift-5. It worked!
Wonderful lesson to learn: Always check for hotkey conflicts.