Screenshots in Pluely v1: Capture Full Screen or Selection

The Pluely v1 overlay composer — the bar at the bottom of the overlay where you type a question and attach context — includes two dedicated screenshot controls: Capture and Selection. Both let you show Pluely what is on your screen instead of describing it in words, but they capture different areas and one of them is a Pluely Pro feature.

Capture: full screen

Capture takes a screenshot of your entire screen. Its tooltip reads "Capture full screen," making clear it grabs everything currently visible on your display, not just the active window or a portion of it. This is the fastest way to hand Pluely full visual context — a code editor, a slide deck, a spreadsheet, a chat window — with a single click, and it attaches the resulting image to your next question in Ask mode.

If you also have auto-screenshot enabled elsewhere in Pluely, the Capture tooltip changes to reflect that: it reads "Capture full screen (auto-screenshot is ON)," reminding you that screenshots are already being taken automatically in the background, so a manual Capture click adds one more on top of whatever auto-screenshot is already doing.

Selection: a chosen region

Selection lets you "select a region" of your screen rather than capturing all of it — useful when only one part of your display is relevant to your question and you would rather not send Pluely (or spend context on) the rest of your screen. You drag to define the exact area, and only that region becomes the attached screenshot.

Selection capture is a Pluely Pro feature. On plans without Pro, the region-select tool is not available, and Capture (full screen) is the way to attach a screenshot instead.

How to take a screenshot

1. Open the overlay and bring up the composer at the bottom.
2. To capture everything on screen, select Capture — the tooltip confirms "Capture full screen" (or the auto-screenshot variant if that feature is already on).
3. To capture only part of your screen, select Selection and drag to define the region you want (Pluely Pro required).
4. The screenshot attaches to your next message in the composer, ready to send along with your typed question.
5. Ask your question — Pluely answers with the screenshot as visual context.

Choosing Capture versus Selection

Reach for Capture when your whole screen is relevant, when you want the fastest possible screenshot with no dragging involved, or when the thing you want Pluely to see fills most of your display anyway. Reach for Selection when your screen is cluttered with unrelated windows, tabs, or notifications, and you specifically want Pluely to see one panel, one chart, or one error message without the surrounding noise — assuming you have Pluely Pro.

Auto-screenshot awareness

The "(auto-screenshot is ON)" wording on the Capture tooltip exists so you are never surprised by how many screenshots are being taken. If you see that qualifier and did not expect auto-screenshot to be running, it is worth checking your broader screenshot-related settings, since it means captures are already happening automatically in addition to anything you trigger manually with Capture or Selection.

Related

See Attachments & Library for attaching documents and files alongside screenshots, and Ask mode for how attached screenshots shape Pluely's answers. For the full list of Settings sections, see the Settings overview, and for keeping screenshots private during a screen share, see Stealth & privacy.