Organize research screenshots without the manual work.

Papers, threads, GitHub repos, charts, reference sites, and tool pages all end up in Photos. SnapAction turns those images into typed cards you can revisit by title, tag, and resource type.

The research screenshot problem

Screenshots are unlabeled

Your Photos library holds hundreds of paper abstracts, technical diagrams, and social posts with no resource-level structure.

Sources disappear

A screenshot may show a useful idea but hide the canonical URL. Later you have the clue, not the source.

Follow-up gets delayed

Research capture should lead to opening a paper, reading an article, cloning a repo, or adding a todo—not a manual search session.

How researchers use SnapAction

1

Scan research screenshots

Use screenshots of papers, papers-in-progress, social posts, GitHub repos, technical blogs, videos, documentation, and reference websites.

2

Extract the primary resource

SnapAction's AI pipeline classifies the item as a paper, article, post, repo, video, app, website, note, or todo and generates tags and descriptions.

3

Build a searchable resource trail

SwiftData stores title, URL, tags, type, description, and linked screenshot IDs, so research artifacts become cards instead of loose images.

Built for research workflows

Paper and article cards

Classify screenshots of papers, articles, posts, and websites as distinct resource types.

Repo and tool recovery

Turn a screenshot of a repository or tool mention into an openable link when the canonical URL can be found.

Tags and descriptions

Use extracted tags and summaries to re-find saved research later.

Daily Rewind

Review what you captured today before the next research session buries it.

Common questions

Can it identify papers from screenshots?

SnapAction includes a paper resource type and can save paper-like resources with title, URL when available, tags, and description. It does not promise perfect citation extraction from every screenshot.

Can I group related screenshots?

Yes. SnapAction can analyze consecutive screenshots together and link multiple screenshot asset IDs to the same resource when they belong together.

Does it work offline?

No. Screenshot analysis uses SnapAction's backend AI pipeline. Local browsing of saved SwiftData resources is fast after a scan completes.

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Organize your research screenshots

Install the beta to turn research screenshots into a searchable reference trail.

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