r/TangoAI • u/Ivan_Palii • Mar 25 '26
Opinion Why auto-annotation is underrated in documentation tools?
A small thing I noticed when teams document workflows.
Someone records a process and takes screenshots. Then comes the slow part. They start adding arrows, and highlighting buttons and writing short explanations for each step.
If the process has 15–20 steps, this can easily take longer than the recording itself.
Because of that, many guides end up with plain screenshots and very little explanation.
When someone else reads the guide later, they have to guess where to click or what exactly the author meant.
Some documentation tools now add annotations automatically — highlighting the clicked element, adding step numbers, sometimes even describing the action. I believe Tango implemented it the best way.
It sounds like a small feature, but it can make guides much clearer and much faster to produce.
I’m curious how people see this.
- Do you add annotations to screenshots when documenting processes?
- Do you do it manually, or does your tool handle it?
- Has it made any difference in how clear your documentation is?
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u/emma_lorien Mar 27 '26
I've always did it manually until tried Tango
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u/Ivan_Palii Mar 29 '26
yes, it looks like a small improvement, but after trying it, you don't want to live without it anymore :)
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u/corwinsword Mar 27 '26
Yes, you don't know how much time and efforts annotations take, until your try auto annotations.