Step capture
Click through it once. Get the guide.
Click through a task once and get a guide with a screenshot and a numbered step for every click, in Word, HTML, Markdown or PDF. If you used Windows Steps Recorder, which Microsoft has deprecated, Step capture does the same job.
How it works
Start, click, export.
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Start
Press Alt Shift S, or choose Step capture from the tray icon. A small toolbar appears and waits for your first click.
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Click through the task
Every click becomes a step: a screenshot with a numbered badge where you clicked, plus the pointer. Pause while you do anything private.
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Write, redact, export
Stop, and the steps open in the editor as pages. Add a title and a note to each, cover anything sensitive, and export.
Exports
A guide in the format your team already reads.
.docx
Word
Headings, screenshots and your notes in a document you can edit, brand and send.
.html
HTML
One self-contained file, images included. Email it, or drop it on an intranet.
.md
Markdown
A README.md and an images folder, ready for a wiki or a Git repository.
One file with a page per step, ready to print or attach.
Careful by default
Guides get forwarded. Plan for it.
- Redact before you share
Each step is an ordinary page. Redact an email address or a customer name and the pixels are gone from the file and every export.
- Works offline
No cloud editor and no upload. The guide is a file on your disk until you send it somewhere.
- Pause means pause
While step capture is paused, clicks aren’t captured at all.
Honest limits
Not in yet.
- Names for unnamed buttons. Snappington writes a first draft of every step from what you clicked, like “Click Save in the Save As dialog”, and your own words always win. A button with no name gets a “?” so you know to check it.
Write the guide once. Properly.
Snappington for Windows 10 and 11. Free during the beta.