Smart DocsCapture to Guide
A saved capture is raw material: a series of steps and screenshots in the order they happened. Generation turns it into a written guide with a title, an introduction, and prose for every step explaining what is happening and why.
This is the stage where a recording becomes documentation.
Each captured step carries far more than a picture. Generation reads all of it:
| Where in the product the step happened |
| 🖼️ Screenshot | The visual state at that moment |
| 🔲 Hotspot | The stored rectangle marking what was acted on |
That structure is why generated prose reads like instructions instead of captions. A tool that only has screenshots can say “the user is on the settings page.” A tool that also knows the element and the action can say “Click Save changes to apply the new retention window” — because it knows what was clicked, and where.
💡 The click highlight is data, not pixels. It is drawn from the stored rectangle at render time rather than baked into the image, so it stays crisp at any size, restyles with your theme, and can be moved later without re-recording.
Generation writes narration for each step, not just body text. That narration is exactly what Studio reads when it builds a video, so a well-generated guide produces a better reel with no extra work.
While the AI narration polish is still running, any step that has only its raw action label shows a “Generating…” skeleton in place of its text. The guide stays usable while the polish finishes — steps fill in one by one instead of the whole page blocking.
Steps are grouped into sections with titles. A twenty-step capture shown as a flat list of twenty items is technically complete and practically unusable; the same twenty grouped into four named phases is followable. The grouping is generated, and you can change it.
This is the real limitation, and being straight about it saves disappointment later.
The capture records what you did. It never records why. Generation infers intent from element labels, page context and ordering — and it is good at it — but wherever your UI is ambiguous, the inference will be ambiguous too.
It also cannot know anything that was not on screen:
Those have to be added by a person.
⚠️ Treat generated prose as a strong first draft, not a finished page. It gets the mechanics right almost always, and the reasoning right only sometimes.
The most common disappointment is expecting the guide to explain why. It explains what — thoroughly and accurately — and leaves the reasoning to you. The most common pleasant surprise is how little editing the mechanical steps need.
The guide is an ordinary page, so everything the editor does works on it:
💡 Do the deletions first. Recording sessions almost always contain a couple of false starts, and clearing them before you edit prose means you are not polishing text you are about to throw away.