thick screenshots
screenshots can be more valuable with more added metadata in order to recreate the entire context of the screenshot. this could provide much more seamless revisits of place and process - people often ‘save’ the entire context through simply leaving browser tabs ‘open’ - mental clutter, volatile and heavy on processing, but traditional bookmarks don’t save enough of the context/arrangement of multiple sites or applications/specific semantics of the task at hand, or internal program ‘steps’ required by monolithic web apps
screenshots contextualised, principled, from positionality of author, not-auto, deliberately captured, from private areas, logins required, etc
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discussion of perspective-based screenshotting - huangIRCHIVERInformationCentricPersonal2025
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(Hand, 2022) discusses ethnographies including thick descriptions of the domestic settings surrounding photographs as context - thick description also discusses their perspective of the behaviour in context. this is akin to adding extra context to screenshots - thick screenshots.