Recording a capture

Start a capture, work through your process, and watch steps appear as you go.

Recording is designed to disappear into the background: start a capture, do the work the way you normally would, and every meaningful action becomes a documented step.

Start recording

Open the side panel and click Start Recording. If session video is on, Chrome asks you what to share — pick the browser tab you’re documenting. The extension deliberately refuses whole-screen or window shares (so unrelated content can’t leak into a guide) and offers Record without video (screenshots only) if you’d rather skip video entirely.

From that moment, every click, text entry, and navigation becomes a step — each with a screenshot captured at the exact moment of the action, so the page looks the way it did when you acted on it. A floating pill shows Recording · N steps while you work, and steps stream into the side panel in real time, so you can see the guide taking shape. Delete any step on the spot if it shouldn’t be there.

What becomes a step

Action	Result
Click	One step, with the clicked element highlighted in the screenshot
Typing in a field	One step per field, showing what you entered
Navigation	One step marking the page change
Deliberate keys	One step each — ⌘/Ctrl + S/C/V/X, Enter, Escape

Typing is always aggregated into a single step per field — never one step per keystroke. Bare letters, arrow keys, and Tab are ignored entirely, so incidental keyboard activity never clutters the guide (and is never recorded — see Privacy and redaction).

Pause and resume

Pause the capture at any time from the side panel — for example, to look something up or handle an interruption you don’t want documented. While paused, nothing is recorded.

The paused state is durable: it survives page reloads and carries into new tabs, so a capture never silently re-arms itself mid-pause.

Session video and typing GIFs

Alongside the step-by-step record, the extension can record a session video of the current browser tab:

• Video is tab-only — the extension cannot record your monitor or other windows.
• Recordings run up to 15 minutes per capture.
• The video is published with the guide as a playable recording.

Typing steps also get short, automatically generated GIF clips at publish time, so readers can see exactly how a field was filled in.

Complex pages just work

The extension records reliably inside modern enterprise apps:

• Iframes — steps and screenshots capture correctly even when the page renders inside a frame, as Salesforce Classic does.
• Shadow DOM — components in Salesforce Lightning and other web-component UIs are captured like any other element.

You don’t need to do anything special — record the workflow as you’d normally perform it.

Keep captures focused on one task. Shorter, single-purpose guides are easier to follow, easier to replay with Guide Me, and stay well within the 60-step limit per capture.

Finish

When you’re done, stop the capture from the side panel. Your steps are saved locally in the browser and ready for editing — nothing leaves your machine until you publish.