Library and files

Library and files

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The library is the list of what screenIt has kept: screenshots, recordings, and text grabbed from the screen. It is grouped by local calendar day, newest first, with the clock time on each item.

Open it from the Library tile (By day) or from the grid icon in the top bar.

What an entry is

Kind	What you see	What is stored
Screenshot	A thumbnail of the image.	A .scit project: the original pixels plus any annotations, still editable.
Recording	A thumbnail of the first frame.	An .mp4 file.
Grabbed text	A text entry, no thumbnail.	The recognised text, so search can find it.

Right-click an entry (or use its menu) for:

Action	Result
Open in editor	Screenshots open as documents. Recordings open with the transport bar. Text opens as saved text.
Copy to clipboard	Copies an image entry.
Remove from library	Drops the entry from the index.

The search box (Search title, app or tag) filters by title, the application that was captured, or a tag. Text entries are included, so a sentence you grabbed last week is findable.

An empty library says Nothing here yet. Captures are filed as you take them. You do not have to press Save for that first copy.

The two files you actually share

You want	Do this	You get
A picture for a chat, a ticket, or a document	Export PNG (Ctrl+S)	A flat PNG. Annotations are pixels. Recipients do not need screenIt.
A project you will edit again	Keep the .scit, or Save a copy	A zip you can reopen. Annotations stay objects.
The recording	Use the .mp4 already in the folder, or Export MP4	An MP4 other players can open.

.scit is the native project. It is a zip with a manifest, the base PNG, and assets. Early files with the .sxs extension still open.

The editor's Export PNG button writes PNG only. JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, WebP, and PDF are produced by the doc.export command when you give it a path with that extension. See Automation.

Folders

Path	Contents
Pictures\screenIt	The default save folder. If Windows has redirected Pictures into OneDrive, screenIt follows it. Change it under Settings → General → Save captures to. Leave the field empty to use the default.
%LOCALAPPDATA%\screenIt\settings.json	Your settings. Written atomically. A corrupt file is replaced by defaults on the next launch.
%LOCALAPPDATA%\screenIt\library	The library index beside your files.

The status bar's Show in folder reveals the last file screenIt wrote, with that file selected in Explorer.

Deleting a file in Explorer does not always remove its library row until you remove the entry, and removing a library entry does not promise to delete the file. Treat the library as the index and the folder as the files.

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