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+# Maim Utils
+
+I have been using Maim for my screenshots for quite some time now. I had been
+using a hand full of scripts in order to take screenshots of either a selection,
+my entire screen or the currently focussed window; and whether to save them to a
+file or toss them into my clipboard. This is an attempt to mvoe all of that into
+a single script and with a little bit of documentation.