The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video…from your computer to anywhere.

This post is inspired by John who responded to the question, "What is the one thing that was (or still is) the most confusing to you as you started using Jing?" (View the post.)

He said, "...you can Save to a file AND Share/Send to a file. Don't they do the same thing?"

An excellent question and the answer is a confident "Sort of." I will now attempt to expose the mystery of the rarely used and often misunderstood Share to File workflow.

The Save button works how you're probably used to saving things. Pick a place, give it a name. Save. It's just like saving a document, an image from your camera, and so on.

Next up, Share to File. This saves your content in a designated location, but it skips past the navigation and confirmation steps. It's kind of a "fast-save" and is really great if:

• You routinely share to the same location. (Like a "My Jings" folder.)
• You share to a network drive that requires a lot of navigation (a.k.a. wasted time.)
• You take a capture on one computer but you want it saved on another. (For example, you're capturing images on Mac, but you want to edit them with SnagIt on your Windows computer) This saves the steps of manually moving files or emailing files to yourself.

Clear? Maybe not? If the above bullets sparked your curiosity, and you want to learn more, watch my video. I'll show you how I use Share to File from time to time when I have specific tasks at work.