Adding things
Six doors into the same vault. Whatever comes in gets a thumbnail, a place, and, with the Curator on, a title and tags.
Written from Teserra 1.3.16 · Markdown ·
In short
- Drop files on the grid, or File → Import Folder… for a whole folder.
- Press ⌘⇧M in any app to capture an area of the screen.
- With the browser extension, hold ⌥ and click any image or video.
Drag and drop
Drop files from the Finder, a browser or any app onto the grid. Drop them while a collection is open, or onto a collection in the sidebar, and they join that collection. Duplicates are caught by content, not by name: the same image twice is stored once.
Import…
File → Import Files… (⌘O) or Import Folder…, which brings in everything Teserra can read inside the folder and its subfolders. Import Installed Fonts pulls the fonts you installed for your user (~/Library/Fonts) into the library as specimens.
Paste, ⌘V
An image in the clipboard becomes an item. A URL becomes a link card or an article: Teserra decides from the page, and a toast lets you switch.
Capture, ⌘⇧M
From any app: select an area and it lands in the vault. The shortcut can be changed in Settings → Capture. While Teserra is in front, ⌘⇧W captures a window, ⌘⇧F the whole screen, ⌘⇧S opens Studio: the window on a backdrop, margins, arrows, text, numbered badges, a redaction tool. The menu bar icon offers all four captures from any app and any Space. Every capture also appears in the Captures view.
New in 1.3.10For five seconds a small bar waits at the bottom right of the screen under your pointer, without bringing Teserra forward: drag the shot into Slack, Figma, Mail or Finder, copy it, or file it in a collection. Point at the bar to keep it. It is Quick actions after a capture in Settings → Capture, on by default.
From the browser
The browser extension, for Chrome, Firefox and Safari, saves a page as a card, an article as clean offline text, or any image or video with an Option-click. Set it up
From your agents
With Agent access and Allow changes on, Claude Code, Raycast or Cursor can import a URL and file it in a collection for you. Agent access
What formats
| Family | Formats | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Images | JPG, PNG, WEBP, HEIC, AVIF, GIF, TIFF, BMP | Thumbnails, palette, EXIF, GIF and WEBP animate on hover |
| RAW | CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, RAF, ORF, RW2, DNG, PEF and most other camera formats | Preview from the camera's embedded JPEG, sensor size, EXIF, full-size export |
| Fonts | TTF, OTF, TTC, OTC | Composed specimens, a viewer, install and uninstall |
| Video | MP4, MOV, M4V, WEBM, MKV, AVI | Poster frame, duration, a player with chapters. WebM, MKV and AVI need ffmpeg installed (brew install ffmpeg) |
| Documents | PDF, SVG | First page as preview, vectors that zoom sharp |
| Web | Links, articles, X posts | Cards with a live Peek, clean offline text, tweet videos saved locally |