Paste a capture of any screen or app
Press Ctrl+V to paste a screenshot of any screen or application — take it with Win+Shift+S, which also works for desktop apps, with nothing to install. A separate file (a Win+G video, a log…) attaches by drag & drop.Annotate before it’s attached
Each capture opens in an annotation editor: arrow, rectangle, text, highlighter, and a blur to mask sensitive data. The blur is destructive on flatten — once applied and attached, the masked pixels are gone, not just hidden — which is exactly what you want for anything confidential. You get two explicit colours and can undo the last stroke. The capture is attached to Azure DevOps only when you validate it; cancelling the editor uploads nothing.Because the blur is destructive, a masked screenshot leaves your machine already redacted — the original pixels never reach Azure DevOps.
Create a bug, task or test case
From the session, raise a work item without leaving the screen:- Bug — two fields to fill (title pre-filled with your last note, plus severity); everything else is injected, visible and editable: repro steps generated as HTML from your notes, your captures as checkboxes, links to the story and the session, and the inherited classification with a collapsed override.
- Task and Test case — the same flow, with optional steps generated from your notes.
Archive the session
Ending the session archives it as a Task taggedexploratory-session (plus your campaign tag), carrying the full report — charter, duration, counters, timeline — and its relations to the story, the captures and every work item you created. Sessions become natively queryable in Azure DevOps, so a campaign is just a tag query away.
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Explore overview
Start a session and why it’s resilient.
Session report
Turn a finished session into a signed PDF.