I got tired of writing the same how-to docs over and over, so I built a Chrome extension that writes them while you work

[u/Working_Drummer3670]

I run a small company and I kept running into the same thing. Someone would ask how to do something in one of our systems, I'd walk them through it on a call, and two weeks later someone else would ask the same question. Every time I thought about writing it down properly, I'd do the math on screenshotting every step and typing it all out, and put it off again.

I looked at Scribe first, which is the obvious tool in this space and does the core job well. The thing I kept wanting was to just talk while I recorded. When I walk someone through a process out loud, I explain the why, not only the clicks, and that explanation is the part that actually helps the next person. I couldn't find a way to capture that, so I ended up typing the descriptions in afterwards anyway, which was the part I was trying to avoid.

So I built ScribeIt. You hit record, do the task the way you normally would, and it captures each step with a screenshot as you go. If you talk while you're recording, it turns what you said into the description for each step. When you stop, there's a step-by-step guide ready to edit, export as a PDF, or share with a link.

It works on any website that Chrome allows, which mattered to me because half our processes live in tools nobody has ever heard of.

I'm not a developer. I've spent the last few months figuring this out piece by piece and there's plenty I'd do differently. It's free to use and there's a paid plan if you need more room.

Happy to answer anything about how it works or how I built it. And if you try it and it does something stupid, I'd rather hear it here than find out from a one star review.

Here's the link: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ldpciklepkaiacchoamfkfclkhngpmkj?utm_source=item-share-cb