Process Documentation, Built in Real Time

With MagicHow, you can create how-to guides, instructions, manuals, and other guiding documents automatically. You can use our tool while performing a task you describe, and MagicHow will grab your every step, turning steps into slides and compiling slides into a comprehensive guide. You can customize your document later on, adding annotations, tips, and alerts, using graphic elements to anchor users' attention to particular details such as buttons or menus.Using MagicHow allows you to create a guide for a particular process once and share it with a wide audience with a couple of steps. Our tool provides updating your guides, embedded or shared by links, when you change an original document. To finalize, using MagicHow allows automation of process documentation, providing such benefits as the creation of concise, illustrated step-by-step guides and their customization. In turn, guides' creators benefit from saving time and reducing the amount of routine.

You can create a how-to guide, manual, instruction, tutorial, or any other guiding documentation by performing a process yourself, while a program catches every step and pictures it. MagicHow's job results in the creation of a detailed guide of the process. Later, a document can be customized by adding comments, tips, and graphic elements to emphasize specific issues. The process of guide creation is automated, which provides a creator with such an advantage as saving time and effort. To create a how-to guide with MagicHow, one doesn't need any specific skills. Reading a short manual is enough to make a first instruction. You can even skip this onboarding step and start with practice. An intuitive interface makes it possible to make a document and share it with a target audience from scratch without any prior knowledge of a tool. For the creation of a simple guide, you may need several minutes. In case you need to compose a more complex document, more time may be required.

Several features are available to make your guide or instruction clear, emphatic, and engaging. The basic job is done by a tool automatically: you just record the process, and MagicTool compiles the slides into a guide. What makes it holistic are your annotations and other details, which can be added using our tool’s features:

• Slides’ titles;

• Comments, tips, and alerts;

• Graphic elements, such as arrows, rectangles, and others, which help emphasize on the important details.

In addition, you can play with your guide’s style by changing colors and adding logos. You can add details right after recording a process or later, at any time. When you share your document via a link or embed it, your recipients see the updated version as soon as you change the original document.

You can use MagicHow on your desktop computer or a laptop. There are two versions available: browser and desktop. Thus, you can make guides based on the software you use in your browsers or computer. A browser version is compatible with the following browsers:

• Chrome;

• Firefox;

• Edge;

• Safari.

A desktop version empowers you with an opportunity to work on your guides without an Internet connection.

There are several ways to share your content made with our tool. Depending on the goal, you can use the following options:

• download a document as PDF - suits best if you’d prefer your recipient get a copy, compatible with any device and operating system, safe to use and share since it’s unchangeable;

• share a link - the only possible for further cooperative work on the document; perfect for providing a differentiated access;

• copy as HTML or a Markdown - allows to use a guide on a third-party website, keeping the formatting of the document intact;

• embed a guide into a blog or any other web page - a great opportunity to widen the target audience and promote your expertise.

Feel free to choose the most convenient option for every guide or instruction made with MagicHow.

A compulsory set of features needed for the creation of a well-rounded step-by-step guide can be used for free. The basic tool's version, available for free accounts, has enough power to tackle the major tasks such as capturing each step of the process, compiling the visual material to a detailed guide, and sharing it with colleagues, trainees, friends - anyone who needs guidance. A paid version gives slightly more opportunities to users. What is more important, it allows us to develop our product so that MagicHow could provide you with even more helpful capabilities.