The problem
You are on a call. You share your screen to walk through a document. Your notes panel, your draft replies, your assistant window — all of it is now on a projector in front of the room.
The usual workarounds are all bad. Minimising the window means you cannot read it. A second monitor works until you share the wrong one. Alt-tabbing mid-sentence is obvious to everyone watching.
What Windows actually provides
Windows has a window-level flag that marks a specific window as excluded from display capture. When it is set, screen-recording and screen-sharing APIs skip that window while it stays fully visible on your physical display.
It is not a trick or an overlay hack — it is a documented capability, and it is the same mechanism banking and DRM applications use to keep sensitive content out of recordings. JobSeeker AI applies it to its own window, and re-asserts it periodically because certain display or session changes can otherwise clear the flag.
What it covers, precisely
Covered: the assistant's own window, in screen shares and screen recordings that go through the standard Windows capture path — which includes Zoom, Teams, Google Meet and OBS.
Not covered: your whole desktop. Everything else on screen shares normally, as it should.
Not covered: a phone camera pointed at your monitor. Obvious, but worth saying.
Not covered: anything outside the Windows capture path. Unusual capture software or a hardware capture card may behave differently.
Not covered: macOS or Linux. This is a Windows capability and the app is Windows-only.
Where this is genuinely useful
Client presentations. Your pricing notes and internal reminders stay yours while you present the deck.
Technical demos. Documentation and command references on screen, off the share.
Meetings you are also minuting. Live transcript and draft notes visible to you, not projected to everyone.
Support and training calls. Internal runbooks stay internal.
Simply not embarrassing yourself. Most of the value is preventing the accidental reveal rather than concealing anything deliberate.
Using it responsibly
A tool that hides a window is neutral; how it is used is not.
Keeping your own notes off a client presentation is ordinary professional practice. Using the same capability to misrepresent your abilities in an assessment someone is relying on is a different thing, and it tends to come apart at the first probing follow-up question anyway.
Our own view, stated plainly: this exists so your private working notes are not broadcast by accident. In meetings, tell people you are taking AI-assisted notes — it takes four seconds, is almost always met with indifference, and removes the question entirely. Some jurisdictions also require every participant to consent to transcription, so that sentence is often the legally sensible move as well.
How to turn it on
Open JobSeeker AI and find the Hide toggle in the bottom bar.
Switch it on. The window stays visible to you.
Test it before it matters: start a screen share with yourself, or record a few seconds in OBS, and confirm the window is absent from the capture.
A keyboard shortcut is available under Settings if you want to toggle it quickly mid-call.
Always test on your own machine first. Display drivers, virtual display adapters and remote-desktop sessions can all affect capture behaviour, and it is better to find that out beforehand.
Test it yourself in two minutes
Install, turn the Hide toggle on, and start a screen share with yourself. Thirty free credits included, no card required.