Action Capture

Action Capture records a task click by click instead of on a timer. This page covers choosing a target, deciding which clicks count, building step titles, and setting the visual annotations.

For each accepted click, Temposhot saves the target as it looked just before the click. It also stores where the click happened and which control was clicked. When the run finishes, this data becomes the page title, cursor and click marker of each step in a Document.

Action Capture needs Screen Recording and Accessibility permission. Open it from the sidebar or press Command+3.

Choose a capture target

1. Start

   Select Start Action Capture. Choose Capture Target opens.

2. Pick a target

   Choose one of the four targets in the table below.

3. Confirm the source

   For Full Screen or Specific Window, select the display or window in the picker. For Capture Area, draw or resize the region, then select Start Action Capture in the overlay.

Target	Each step shows
Active Window	The window that received the click; it can change between steps
Full Screen	One selected display
Specific Window	One selected app window for the whole run
Capture Area	One selected rectangle of the screen

Configure accepted clicks

Select Configure before a run to open Configure Action Capture. Settings are saved on the Mac and reused for later runs.

Setting	Effect
Mouse click capture	Capture every mouse click, Capture only while a key is held, Skip clicks while a key is held, or Don't capture mouse clicks
Manual capture shortcut	Adds a step without a click; default Shift+Command+2, and any other combination can be recorded
Show cursor in shortcut captures	Includes the current pointer in steps added with the shortcut
Capture outside clicks	For Specific Window and Capture Area: a click outside the target still captures the target
Include toolbar in captures	Keeps the floating Action Capture toolbar visible in saved steps, for example in a Temposhot bug report

Temposhot ignores clicks that follow each other too closely, so one interaction does not produce duplicate steps.

Build automatic page titles

Turn on Parse clicked elements to read the name of the clicked control through macOS Accessibility.

Field	Used when	Default
Page title - parsed	The control has a readable name	Click "[[element-name]]"
Page title - not parsed	No readable name is available	Click here

[[element-name]] is replaced with the control name. How much the title can include depends on the Accessibility data the target app exposes.

Add visual annotations

Visual Annotations are added to each step when the work becomes a Document. They do not change the original screenshots and stay editable.

• Show cursor on click captures: Mac Pointer, Minimal Arrow, Touch Dot or Crosshair, in Small, Medium or Large.
• Mark clicked area: Circle or Rectangle in Small, Medium or Large, with a border color and a background color. The marker also appears on steps added with the manual shortcut.
• Reset restores the default annotation settings.

The preview in the dialog shows the cursor and marker before you record.

Next: Run and review Action Capture.