If we want to make the step by step of some action and reflect it in a document, we will have to prepare to make an infinity of screenshots and use a text editor to record the actions.
It is a long process well known to teachers, bloggers and other professionals accustomed to explaining how things are used in the world of computing.
What Scribe offers is a more automatic way to do it. We just have to install it and press the record button. Then we will start doing the actions (registration on one website, filter on another… whatever), and Cursive will be in charge of identifying the main actions (clicks, mouse movements, page change…) and registering them in its database.
When we finish we will have an editable document with captures and descriptions, it is possible to change the texts to translate or customize them.
Logically, it is possible that some important step has been skipped, or that it has put more details than desired, so it is important that it can be edited for the consumer’s taste.
The program is available for Windows and Mac, and allows exporting the result in PDF, ideal for sharing with students, readers or any interested person.
They comment that they are already preparing a function to share the tutorial with a link, thus avoiding the export in PDF.
