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From anywhere on your machine, press ⌘ ⇧ N (Mac) or Ctrl ⇧ N (Windows). The overlay arrives without animation. Drag the area you want, release. The capture lands in Nori's editor before your finger leaves the trackpad.
Already have an image? Drop it onto Nori's window, or paste it with ⌘ ⇧ V.
When you import an image, Nori reads it. If the content sits off-centre, has whitespace edges, or comes from a tight-crop UI with a uniform background, Nori applies a tasteful inner padding and centres the content in one go. A pill at the top of the window confirms the change with a one-click Revert.
Turn it off entirely in Settings → General → Auto Beautify imports if you'd rather start from raw.
The right-side panel holds three kinds of presets:
Grab the floating pill at the bottom-right of the canvas and drag it anywhere. Nori writes the file in whatever format you've chosen (PNG, JPG, or WebP — picked in Settings → General → Default format) and hands the path to the OS drag. Chat apps inline-paste it without an upload roundtrip; Finder and Photoshop receive a real file URL.
Default scale is 2× for retina sharpness. Drop to 1× in Settings → Drag-out if speed matters more than pixel density.
Hit ⌘ ⇧ T or click the Copy text button in the top bar. Nori highlights every detected text line. Click the line you want — it goes straight to your clipboard. Multi-line, multi-language. Esc to exit OCR mode.
⌘ ⇧ P auto-detects emails, IBANs, API keys, and card numbers — pixelating them in one tap. Or pick the Blur tool (B) and draw any region by hand. Adjust strength in the right panel.
Click Animate in the top bar to open the timeline. Touch any control (tilt, scale, padding, position, offset) and Nori writes a keyframe at the current playhead. Drag keyframes to retime, Cmd-click to multi-select, tweak the easing curve in the popover. Space plays.
Export pill in the timeline header: pick MP4 (universal), WebM (smallest), or GIF (autoplays in chat). Defaults for format and quality live in Settings → Video.
On startup Nori quietly asks GitHub Releases whether a newer signed build exists. If it does, you'll see a confirmation dialog — Install downloads with a live progress toast and relaunches into the new version. Later snoozes it until next launch. Every update is verified against a cryptographic signature baked into your installed copy before it's allowed to install, so even a compromised network can't push code we didn't sign.
Check manually: Settings → About → Check for updates runs the check on demand and always reports the result, even when there's nothing new.
Stay offline: toggle off Check for updates automatically in the same panel. Nori then never reaches the network on its own.
Launch at login: Settings → Window → Launch at login registers Nori with your OS so the global capture shortcut works the moment you reach your desktop — no manual launch needed. On by default; off if you'd rather start it when you want it.
Replay onboarding: changed your mind about a permission, or want to revisit the intro tour? Hit Settings → About → Replay onboarding. Power-user shortcut: ⌘ ⇧ ? on Mac, Ctrl ⇧ ? on Windows — works from anywhere in the app.
Every shortcut below is rebindable in Settings → Shortcuts. Mac glyphs shown; on Windows, ⌘ becomes Ctrl, the rest stays the same.
| ⌘ ⇧ N | Capture area |
| ⌘ ⇧ V | Paste capture from clipboard |
| ⌘ ⇧ C | Copy current result to clipboard |
| ⌘ S | Export |
| ⌘ Z / ⌘ ⇧ Z | Undo · Redo |
| Space (hold) | Pan the canvas |
| ⌘ + / − | Zoom in / out |
| ⌘ 0 | Fit to canvas |
| V / H / A / T / N / B / M | Tools — move, pan, arrow, text, number, blur, magnifier |
| Esc | Cancel tool / close dialog |
| , / . | Jump between keyframes (animation mode) |
| L | Loop playback (animation mode) |
Captures, edits, exports, OCR, blur detection — everything runs entirely on your machine. Your screenshots never leave it. No analytics, no crash reports, no usage telemetry.
One outbound network call exists by default: on startup (and when you click Check for updates) Nori asks GitHub Releases for the latest version manifest — the same kind of GET request a browser makes for a public web page. No identifiers, no user data, no fingerprinting. More about updates, including how to turn the check off entirely from Settings → About.
If you decide to install an update, that download is a second network call (also to GitHub). Update bundles are verified against a cryptographic signature baked into your installed copy before installing, so even a compromised network can't substitute code we didn't sign.
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