Remembering Skitch
I can remember seeing Skitch for the first time - while still in beta. I think I got the link from one of the weblogs I read, but I can remember seeing it, and what it could do, and thinking This is IT!. I signed up for the beta, and when it went commercial, I bought a copy.
Two, in fact.
And then they sold out to Evernote... and redesigned the experience... and all of a sudden it wasn't the lightweight but powerful little image editor and uploader for posting to this journal, it was something that integrated with Evernote, and they took away the image hosting - except for Evernote, etc.
Basically, they sold out and destroyed what I loved about the product.
Then came Monosnap and it looked to be exactly what I needed - a Skitch 1.0 replacement. So I got it, and I have been using it for a while, but the truth of the matter is that it's buggy. Some menu items don't show up all the time... the copy and paste of an image doesn't work... it's a nice try, and it worked on some version if Mac OS X, but they haven't kept up with it, and it shows.
So now I'm looking at Glui. It's coming with some pretty good recommendations from friends that also loved Skitch, but were looking for a replacement, and it's only posting service is Dropbox, but I can live with that for now. Still... it's missing a lot of the nice features that were in Skitch - specifically, making it easy for me to get at the URL of the image in Dropbox.
Why do all these tools want to put their chrome on the image? Why not do what Skitch did, and give me a page where I can get at all the URLs, and pick what I want?
Yes... Skitch was perfect at this... and then they sold out.
It's pretty sad...
UPDATE: HA! I found that it's a preference item on Glui to copy the page link or the direct image link. That's much better. They also have the nice 'scaling' option for my Retina MacBook Pro. This might actually just be me needing to get into Glui's way of doing things. That would be very nice. 🙂