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Scribe by Cursive - Create step-by-step user guides, with a simple click

Know how to do something cool or useful?
One click, Scribe will watch you work your magic and automatically turn what you do into an easy-to-share guide. Create user guides for onboarding, training, product documentation, remote support, edu, and more.

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Amanda Peyton
Hi @jennifersmith6 this is super interesting! I was wondering if you could talk a bit more about how teams are using this for customer success guides? We are mostly using a combination of Notion, Intercom and Retool right now but would be curious to hear how teams are integrating the tool into their workflows.
Jennifer Smith
@amanda_peyton two main ways: 1) internal training - CS has lots of training manuals, and they're pretty cumbersome to create (and therefore don't get updated often enough); 2) guiding customers through a flow - sharing a scribe "how-to" guide w a customer to resolve their issue. I used to work in a call center, and one thing I observed was that great reps found their own optimal ways of doing things. I'd love to see them use scribe to share their "best practice" learnings w their colleagues.
Andreea
Fantastic product, well done ?makers! I think this has a lot of applications for PMs and product marketers, who could use it to describe/educate folks re new launches. I'd also consider a future iteration that animates the steps (simple flash video), for easier distribution/sharing on websites or in app.
Aaron Podolny
@afakerele Thank you! Yes we're thinking about exactly this direction — focusing on how to make it easy to share the results via a link, where the recipient could decide how they want to the content (slideshow, animation, guide, etc.) Any in particular that are a good fit for what you're imagining?
Jennifer Smith
@afakerele @aaron_podolny we were thinking that might be really cool...imagine that's something you could send to folks (ie a walk-through of a flow) or embed on a site. what did you have in mind?
Angie Peng
Awesome product! +1 to other comments here around allowing easier collaboration on the guide itself - maybe one idea would be to allow an option to export to a Google Doc or something of the like so that teams can collaborate (re-arrange, add commentary, add in links to other documentation, etc.).
Aaron Podolny
@angie_peng Thank you! We're very focused on sharing options in the next iteration. Appreciate the thoughtful feedback.
Jennifer Smith
@angie_peng Seems like a common theme across the comments...this will be a top priority for our next version
Constant Druon
Super cool !
Jennifer Smith
@constant_druon thanks! let us know if you have any feedback
Milos Golijan
Great product by my coworkers!
Aaron Podolny
@milos_golijan Thanks, Milos!
Noah Jessop
Really quick way to build documentation for anything - so much easier than taking tons of screenshots. ?makers would you add underlining or text on pictures eventually?
Jennifer Smith
@njess hm that's a great question. we hadn't considered it, but I could see it being helpful for marking up / annotating parts of a screenshot beyond just the click
Aaron Podolny
@njess Great idea! Our roadmap includes a few different features for annotating screenshots, but also for using machine intelligence to automatically identify relevant steps/parts of actions so that creators don't have to do all that work themselves.
Jennifer Smith
what are the collaborative / sharing features you're most interested in? have gotten a number of comments here and offline with this request. would love to get a sense for what would be most helpful for folks
Raj Gokal
Passed this to my developer relations lead. Gets us prototyping on quick start guides! Very cool idea.
Aaron Podolny
@raj_gokal Thanks — sounds like a great use case — looking forward to hearing how it goes!
Jennifer Smith
@raj_gokal great! tell him to ping us here if he has any feature requests, feedback, etc. hope it's useful
Tanja A
Great and useful tool for customer support! It makes it easy for the customers to use step by step instructions!
Aaron Podolny
@tanja_a Thanks! Would love to hear more about how you use it.
Stevan Miletic
Amazing product!
Nikola Milev
@stevan_miletic Thanks for your feedback!