Welcome to Scribe! 👋🏼
This guide will help you capture, edit, and share your first Scribe in just a few minutes.
- Download the Scribe extension or app
- Capture a Scribe
- Edit a Scribe
- Share a Scribe
If you prefer to read this New User Guide in Scribe Pages, click here. Let's get started!
Before we dive in: What is a Scribe?
A Scribe is an automatically generated step-by-step guide with screenshots, text and cursor clicks.
Simply turn on Scribe and walk through your process — Scribe creates the documentation for you.
It's pretty magical, and infinitely better than manually copy/pasting screenshots into a Word Doc, recording a Loom video or live trainings.
This is what a Scribe looks like:
👨🏽💻 Step 1: Download the Scribe extension or app
Install Scribe using a browser extension or desktop app.
Download our browser extension:
Users on all plans can capture a Scribe using the Chrome or Edge extension to capture browser-based apps and processes.
Download our desktop app:
With Pro and Enterprise plans, you can capture desktop-based apps and workflows using our Mac and Windows desktop apps.
📸 Step 2: Capture a Scribe
Turn on Scribe, complete your process and click Stop Capture. Scribe automatically generates the step-by-step guide.
✏️ Step 3: Edit your Scribe
After capturing, you can edit your Scribe to improve clarity: Update the title and description, add or reorder steps, format text, and more!
Pro or Enterprise users can also edit your screenshots to crop, annotate or redact.
📬 Step 4: Share your Scribe
Scribes are meant to be shared, so we offer a handful of different ways you can share your Scribe with teammates.
Use Smart Embed to embed your Scribe into tools like Confluence, SharePoint, Notion, Guru, and HubSpot.
And that's it! 🤩 In just a few minutes you've captured, edited and shared your first Scribe with teammates or clients.
💡Other helpful tips:
1. Your Workspace
Your Workspace is your home base in Scribe. All your navigation lives on the left (Dashboard, Documents, Search and Teammates). Here are some deep dives into core parts of your Workspace:
Dashboard
The Dashboard shows Scribes and Pages recently created or viewed by you and your teammates.
Documents
Manage Scribes and Pages in a single place. Quickly search for documents by filtering between Shared, Private and Saved.
Want a more comprehensive tour of your Workspace? Check this out.
2. Create a Page - Pro & Enterprise only
Pages lets you combine multiple Scribes with text, lists, and video into a single document. Use them for onboarding guides, training materials, SOPs, and more.
Check out these Scribes for step-by-step instructions on how to create Pages:
Ready to add more content to your Page? Check out this help article.