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Contributor captures your screen activity through a compact menu bar interface that sits outside your main workflow. You can start and stop a recording at any time without leaving what you are doing. Every second you are recording, Contributor takes a screenshot and saves it locally to your active session.

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Starting a recording

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Open the menu bar app

Click the Contributor icon in your menu bar to open the capture panel.
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Choose your capture source

By default, Contributor records your full display. If you have multiple monitors, use the Display dropdown to choose which screen to capture.To record a specific application window instead of the entire screen, enable the Active Window toggle and select the window you want from the dropdown list.
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Start recording

Click Start Recording. The menu bar app shows a live elapsed-time counter while recording is active.

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Capture source options

Contributor records everything visible on the selected display. This is the default mode and requires no extra configuration. Use the Display dropdown to switch between monitors if you have more than one connected.

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What Contributor captures

While recording is active, Contributor takes one screenshot per second of your chosen source. Each screenshot is saved immediately to your device as part of the current session. The menu bar panel shows the elapsed time so you can track how long you have been recording.
Screenshots are stored locally and are not sent anywhere until you explicitly submit the session through the editor.

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Pausing and resuming

If you need to step away mid-session, click Pause in the menu bar app. The elapsed timer stops and no new screenshots are taken. Click Resume when you are ready to continue - the same session picks up where it left off.

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Auto-pause for sensitive windows

Contributor monitors the active window while recording. When it detects an application that may contain sensitive information - such as a banking site, a password manager, or similar - it automatically pauses the recording. No screenshot is taken of the sensitive window. Recording resumes automatically when you switch to a different window.
Auto-pause is a keyword-based heuristic, not a perfect classifier. Always review your screenshots in the editor before submitting to confirm no sensitive content was captured.

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Stopping a recording

Click Stop Recording in the menu bar app. Contributor finalizes the session, saves it locally, and opens the editor automatically so you can review your screenshots straight away.

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Tips for a focused session

Keep recordings targeted. A shorter session that covers one task clearly tends to perform better in review than a long session that jumps between many unrelated activities.
  • Close tabs and windows you do not intend to record before starting.
  • Use window-capture mode when only one application is relevant.
  • If you accidentally capture something private, you can delete those screenshots in the editor before submitting.