Red Snapper and Yep, two very different applications, which when put together serve an ace function of capturing, logging, tagging, and viewing screenshots of web pages in OSX.

Firstly, it’s important you become familiar with the functions of these two applications. Red Snapper is a light-weight Safari plugin that lets you capture web pages - exactly as they appear on screen. Screenshots can be saved as many different file styes, including PDFs. Though the best feature is its ability to capture a web page with one click, or one keyboard shortcut.

Yep is an application which locates and stores your PDF files, allowing you to access and view them from one central location. It’s just like iTunes or iPhoto, but specifically for PDF documents.

How do these two application interlink to create an environment where you can collect web screenshots in OSX. Simple. Red Snapper allows you to take a screenshot of a page by hitting Shift+Apple+R - and saves the screenshot to a predefined location. Yep includes a “Pending Documents” folder in your Document s folder. simply set the Red Snapper save destination to this folder, and your web captures will automatically be added to Yep when it’s launched.

Installing The Software

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Head over to Tasty Apps and download Red Snapper. Then head over to Yep That, and download Yep. Once the downloads are complete, install both applications.

Setting Up Preferences

Once Red Snapper is installed launch Safari. You should see a new icon in your toolbar, that of a little fish. Press the toolbar icon and you will be prompted with the following window.

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If your window displays differently, set it to capture web pages in the PDF format. Then change your save destination to yourname>library>application support>yep>pending documents

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Capturing Web Pages

Now it’s time to put these steps into action. Press Shift+Apple+R to capture a screenshot. As the destination is already setup, simple then hit the enter button or click save, and the PDF will be collected in your Pending Documents folder.

Logging, Tagging, And Viewing

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The final step is to launch Yep, any documents residing in the Pending Documents folder will automatically be imported into the database, and be accessible within the application - ready for tagging, sorting, and viewing.

Conclusion

This combination is a simple way to capture and log full web pages. I use this method for storing anything of interest, weather it’s a beautiful site design, or an interesting article I want to archive. The combination of RedSnapper + Yep is much more simple than using an application like Paparazzi, and keeping your own file system.