The whole reason speedshot was born was the existing free, easily available tools were slow to use. Programs like windows paint were costing time and causing supreme iritation, because they were built as general purpose tools. It's the swiss-army kinfe syndrome. A swiss army knife (or leatherman etc) will get you out of an untold number of pickles where you didn't know you were going to need... for example, a screwdriver. But if you know you will be driving a couple of hundred screws, you would never intentionally plan to do it with your swiss army knife. Specialized tools are almost always faster (if you happen to have one!). SpeedShot is a specialized tool.

Because SpeedShot specializes, it can dedicate the primary user interface controls to the key task at hand. The design of SpeedShot specifically aims to minimize both keystrokes and mouse gestures in the process of generating a screen capture. In the simplest case you can have a screen shot saved to disk with the following sequence (on windows)

1. ALT - PrtScr
2. Click the SpeedShot quick launch icon
3. Hit the Space bar
4. Hit Enter twice

In order to retain its speed and simplicity the feature set of SpeedShot is intentionally limited. Feature creep is the ultimate enemy of a tool like SpeedShot. The following features will never be added:

• Take a screen shot. It's your job to get the image data into the clipboard, use another tool, or use the print screen button for that. If your current tool saves it to a file you may be able to configure it to put the data on the clipboard instead, check your documentation.
• Have a right mouse context menu. That would interfere with the quick and easy cropping.
• Have user preferences for color or line width. That's a cotton candy feature that only adds code to maintain and creates ways for the user to waste time. If you want to waste time twiddling the color of your circles, use paint, this tool is for people who want to save time.
• The ability to load a file from disk. KestrelPaste is not for general image editing.