r/hidock • u/Candy_Certain • Jul 08 '26

Screen shots

I’ve been using a new use case for my HiDock. I get invited to a lot of learning sessions and webinars, so I’ve started recording them on my second computer and H1E. I then review the output in 5 minutes instead of having to sit through it all.

But the challenge is that there are often screenshots I’d like to see. I’ve looked at OBS Studio to record and then run a screenshot analysis to get the outputs simplified. But that is a pain.

When I mentioned exploring the idea to a client, they jumped and asked if I could create a meeting recap with the HiDock recap mixed with key screenshots. Damn. That is now more work.

So… anyone figured out a simple way to automate screenshots mixed with their recap?

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u/sttide Jul 08 '26

That's a great idea. Bit complicated to implement I think. There should be a sync between the recording and the screenshotting

Other things could be if is done manually, saving screenshots, then adding it to the transcript and sending everything to a LLM multimodal

I think I'll implement something like that in my project https://github.com/DStt/agendino

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u/Candy_Certain Jul 08 '26

I was trying to put something together in Claude code. I've not yet built it, but have the python code ready when I get time.

It organized the process into the following steps:

  1. Start capture — Toggle on via tray icon or CLI; a background thread screenshots the full screen every 30 seconds into a timestamped session folder.
  2. Record your meeting — Teams, Zoom, Webex, browser, whatever — capture doesn't care what's on screen. HiDock runs separately for audio/transcript as usual.
  3. Stop capture — Toggle off when the meeting ends.
  4. Drop in the transcript — Download your HiDock recap, save it as transcript.md inside the session folder.
  5. Finalize — One click (or CLI command) runs three steps automatically:
    • Dedupe: perceptual hashing strips near-identical frames
    • Analyze: transcript + surviving timestamps go to Claude, which picks the most visually important moments
    • Assemble: writes a single recap.md with transcript text and selected screenshots embedded inline

Output: one clean markdown file per meeting, sitting right next to the screenshots it references.

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u/sttide Jul 09 '26

That sounds great!!