diff --git a/electron/ipc/handlers.ts b/electron/ipc/handlers.ts
index 1d9f5ef9d..81e706c08 100644
--- a/electron/ipc/handlers.ts
+++ b/electron/ipc/handlers.ts
@@ -2096,13 +2096,19 @@ export function registerIpcHandlers(
 		},
 	);
 
-	async function presentMacSystemPicker(session: MacPickerSession) {
-		// The HUD and the notes window belong to this process, not to the helper, so a display
-		// pick would record them unless the picker is told to leave them out.
+	/**
+	 * The HUD and the notes window belong to this process, not to the helper, so a display
+	 * pick would record them unless the picker is told to leave them out.
+	 */
+	function macPickerExcludedWindowIds() {
 		const appWindowSourceIds = [getMainWindow(), getNotesWindow()]
 			.filter((window): window is BrowserWindow => !!window && !window.isDestroyed())
 			.map((window) => window.getMediaSourceId());
-		const excludedWindowIds = collectMacCaptureExcludedWindowIds(appWindowSourceIds);
+		return collectMacCaptureExcludedWindowIds(appWindowSourceIds);
+	}
+
+	async function presentMacSystemPicker(session: MacPickerSession) {
+		const excludedWindowIds = macPickerExcludedWindowIds();
 		// Out of the way while the picker is up. The HUD window is far larger than the bar
 		// it draws (a transparent reserve above it), and Apple's picker targets windows by
 		// their frame, not by where clicks land -- so that invisible rectangle hid every
@@ -2179,6 +2185,9 @@ export function registerIpcHandlers(
 			if (!isMacPickerSourceId(selectedSource?.id)) {
 				return selectedDesktopSource ? selectedSource : null;
 			}
+			// A screen pick that would record the current HUD or notes window is no pick at all:
+			// answering null makes the next Record present the picker again (#965).
+			macPickerSession?.forgetSelectionUnlessExcluding(macPickerExcludedWindowIds());
 			if (!macPickerSession?.getSelection()) {
 				selectedSource = null;
 				selectedDesktopSource = null;
@@ -3018,6 +3027,8 @@ export function registerIpcHandlers(
 			// A source from Apple's picker records through the session that holds the pick,
 			// and needs no Screen Recording grant -- so nothing here may go near one.
 			const pickerSession = isMacPickerSourceId(request.source.sourceId) ? macPickerSession : null;
+			// Normally caught by `get-selected-source` first; this is the last word (#965).
+			pickerSession?.forgetSelectionUnlessExcluding(macPickerExcludedWindowIds());
 			const pick = pickerSession?.getSelection() ?? null;
 			if (isMacPickerSourceId(request.source.sourceId) && !pick) {
 				selectedSource = null;
diff --git a/electron/native-bridge/screen/macPickerSession.test.ts b/electron/native-bridge/screen/macPickerSession.test.ts
index c5945bedf..adac0495b 100644
--- a/electron/native-bridge/screen/macPickerSession.test.ts
+++ b/electron/native-bridge/screen/macPickerSession.test.ts
@@ -199,6 +199,57 @@ describe("MacPickerSession", () => {
 		expect(helper.commands.at(-1)).toBe("stop");
 	});
 
+	it("forgets a screen pick once an app window it does not leave out must be (#965)", async () => {
+		const { session } = await pickDisplay();
+
+		// The windows the picker was told about, in any order, or fewer of them: still good.
+		session.forgetSelectionUnlessExcluding([8, 7]);
+		session.forgetSelectionUnlessExcluding([7]);
+		expect(session.getSelection()).not.toBeNull();
+
+		// The HUD came back from the editor as a new window: the pick would record it.
+		session.forgetSelectionUnlessExcluding([9]);
+		expect(session.getSelection()).toBeNull();
+	});
+
+	it("keeps the exclusions of the pick, not of a picker that was cancelled", async () => {
+		const { helper, session } = await pickDisplay();
+		const cancelled = session.present([9]);
+		await flush();
+		helper.say({ event: "picker-cancelled" });
+		expect(await cancelled).toBeNull();
+
+		session.forgetSelectionUnlessExcluding([7, 8]);
+		expect(session.getSelection()).not.toBeNull();
+		session.forgetSelectionUnlessExcluding([9]);
+		expect(session.getSelection()).toBeNull();
+	});
+
+	it("keeps a window pick whatever the app's windows are", async () => {
+		const { helper, session } = await readySession();
+		const pick = session.present([7]);
+		await flush();
+		helper.say({ ...DISPLAY_PICK, kind: "window", windowId: 42 });
+		expect(await pick).not.toBeNull();
+
+		session.forgetSelectionUnlessExcluding([9]);
+		expect(session.getSelection()).toMatchObject({ kind: "window" });
+	});
+
+	it("keeps the pick while a take is running from it", async () => {
+		const { helper, session } = await pickDisplay();
+		session.startTake({});
+
+		// The notes window opened mid-take: the running take still reads the pick's frame.
+		session.forgetSelectionUnlessExcluding([7, 8, 9]);
+		expect(session.getSelection()).not.toBeNull();
+
+		helper.say({ event: "take-ended" });
+		await flush();
+		session.forgetSelectionUnlessExcluding([7, 8, 9]);
+		expect(session.getSelection()).toBeNull();
+	});
+
 	it("ends a running take and forgets the pick when the session dies", async () => {
 		const { helper, session } = await pickDisplay();
 		const take = session.startTake({});
diff --git a/electron/native-bridge/screen/macPickerSession.ts b/electron/native-bridge/screen/macPickerSession.ts
index 0f0e5b186..7b7aea758 100644
--- a/electron/native-bridge/screen/macPickerSession.ts
+++ b/electron/native-bridge/screen/macPickerSession.ts
@@ -186,6 +186,10 @@ export class MacPickerSession {
 	private proc: ChildProcessWithoutNullStreams | null = null;
 	private starting: Promise<boolean> | null = null;
 	private selection: MacPickerSelection | null = null;
+	/** The windows the picker was told to leave out, as of the last `present`. */
+	private presentedExclusions: readonly number[] = [];
+	/** The windows the retained pick leaves out: baked into its filter, fixed until the next pick. */
+	private selectionExclusions: readonly number[] = [];
 	private take: TakeProcess | null = null;
 	private pendingPick: ((selection: MacPickerSelection | null) => void) | null = null;
 	private lineBuffer = "";
@@ -199,6 +203,26 @@ export class MacPickerSession {
 		return this.selection;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Forgets a screen pick that does not leave out every one of `windowIds`.
+	 *
+	 * The windows a screen pick leaves out are the ones the picker was told about when it
+	 * was shown, baked into the pick's filter. A take cannot add one: a fresh filter needs
+	 * the Screen Recording grant this picker exists to avoid. So once the HUD or the notes
+	 * window is not one the pick knows -- the HUD is a new window after every trip through
+	 * the editor -- the pick would record it, and only picking again leaves it out (#965).
+	 * A window pick records that one window and is never affected, and neither is a take
+	 * already running: its filter is set, and its cursor telemetry still reads the pick.
+	 */
+	forgetSelectionUnlessExcluding(windowIds: readonly number[]) {
+		if (this.selection?.kind !== "display" || (this.take && !this.take.ended)) {
+			return;
+		}
+		if (!windowIds.every((windowId) => this.selectionExclusions.includes(windowId))) {
+			this.selection = null;
+		}
+	}
+
 	/** Starts the helper if it is not running. Resolves false when it cannot. */
 	start(): Promise<boolean> {
 		if (this.proc) {
@@ -286,6 +310,7 @@ export class MacPickerSession {
 				resolve(selection);
 			};
 		});
+		this.presentedExclusions = [...excludedWindowIds];
 		this.send({
 			command: "present",
 			excludedWindowIds,
@@ -335,6 +360,7 @@ export class MacPickerSession {
 				const selection = parsePickerSelection(event);
 				if (selection) {
 					this.selection = selection;
+					this.selectionExclusions = this.presentedExclusions;
 				}
 				this.resolvePick(selection);
 				return;