Guidemaker Updates

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Share or embed your guide as a slideshow

By Andy Cook

You can how share or embed your Guidemaker guides as a Paged layout that functions as a slideshow. Here's a sample guide using the Paged layout in action To change your layout to a slideshow, just Edit your guide, choose Paged from the layout options, and save your guide. That's...

NEW

1 month ago

1 month ago

Moveable Click Targets

By Andy Cook

We've received feedback from our users about the click targets not coming through all that great every time. Sometimes they're too big, too small, or in the wrong spot. Sorry about that! We've launched an update to address the wrong spot issue by letting you now move the click targets...

FIX Improvement

1 month ago

1 month ago

Image editing

By Andy Cook

You can now edit images directly in Guidemaker! 🎉 Our image editor includes all sorts of useful editing features like annotating with text + shapes, blurring, cropping, and more. This can be especially useful if you forgot to blur some sensitive information or uploaded a screenshot that needs some additional...

NEW

1 month ago

1 month ago

Fixes to the login flow using one-time codes

By Andy Cook

Since launching out of beta, we've heard some reports of people who couldn't login using the email login flow... Sorry about that! We believe we've isolated the issue to Windows users with Microsoft Outlook and Windows Defender installed. In some instances, those tools strip out characters from our magic login...

FIX

6 months ago

6 months ago

AI generated guide titles

By Andy Cook

Having to stop your workflow to name your guide is not ideal and requires too much thinking. The good news is that we fixed that! Guidemaker now automatically generates a title based on what you did in your guide using AI. This is handy because it removes the step of...

Improvement

6 months ago

6 months ago

Analytics: Guide creation time

By Andy Cook

We now automatically track the time it takes to make your guide and show it on the public page analytics.

Improvement

6 months ago

6 months ago

Officially out of beta! 🎉

By Andy Cook

We're excited to announce that Guidemaker is officially out of beta! Thank you all for the feedback as we built the initial version of the product and worked out the kinks. You can view our Chrome Listing in the Google Chrome Web Store. And if you're feeling generous, please a...

Announcement

7 months ago

7 months ago

Blur sensitive information in screenshots with Blur Mode

By Andy Cook

Sometimes you need to make a guide from a webpage with sensitive information on it that obviously shouldn't be included in a shared guide. The good news is that you can now blur sensitive information on your pages before taking a screenshot with Blur Mode. To turn on Blur Mode,...

BETA NEW

7 months ago

7 months ago

Improved editor with step styles, code blocks & alt text

By Andy Cook

We added three new editor improvements to help you create informative and accessible guides. Step Styles Sometimes you want to draw your viewers eye to a particularly important step. To help with that, we've launched four new Step Styles: Alert Warning Info Success Here's an example of the success style:...

BETA Improvement

8 months ago

8 months ago

Improved tracking for browser actions

By Andy Cook

We improved the actions that get tracked in Guidemaker. New tracked actions: Navigating to a URL Text field clicks Typing into a text field Commands (e.g. CTRL or CMD + C) Previously tracked actions: Clicks on the page or buttons You can toggle on or off the actions you want...

BETA Improvement

8 months ago

8 months ago

Export your guides

By Andy Cook

We added the ability to export your guides in various formats. We now support export to PDF, Markdown, and HTML. (Microsoft Word export is coming. In the meantime, if you export as HTML and copy and paste the output into Word, it should work just fine) How to export a...

BETA NEW

9 months ago

9 months ago

Customize your colors and logo

By Andy Cook

We know you got style, and we want you to show it off. We launched the ability to brand your guide with custom branding. You can customize your guides: Click target color Step counter color Add a custom logo How to customize your guide First step is to Edit your...

BETA Improvement

9 months ago

9 months ago

Analytics V1

By Andy Cook

Getting feedback on who is using your guides is both motivating and important. Luckily, we just launched the first version of analytics 📈 You can now view the total number of views on your guides at the top: This is admittedly a small first version, but we'll improvement the analytics...

BETA NEW

9 months ago

9 months ago

Delete your guides

By Andy Cook

Sometimes your guide doesn't come out quite the way you want it, or you just don't need it anymore. In that case, we added the ability to delete your guides. To delete a guide, just click the Delete button while logged in. Important note: Once a guide is deleted, it's...

BETA FIX

9 months ago

9 months ago

Auto zoom to the click target

By Andy Cook

We added the ability to one-click auto zoom your screenshots to the click target. In the guide editor, just click the Zoom to Target button. The screenshot will automatically reposition and zoom in on where the guide viewer is supposed to click.

BETA FIX

9 months ago

9 months ago

Embed and share your guide

By Andy Cook

What good is a guide that you can't share with others? We've added a new share popup that lets you get a shareable link or the code to embed your guide in other tools like Wordpress, Shopify, Confluence, Tettra, and more. How to share your guide Click the Share button...

BETA Improvement

9 months ago

9 months ago

Moved to Chrome side panel

By Andy Cook

We moved Guidemaker to the native Chrome side panel instead of adding a sidebar popup to the page. It's a much smoother experience and gets in your way less as you do your work.

BETA Improvement

10 months ago

10 months ago

Beta invites are starting

By Andy Cook

We're starting to send out beta invites for the first version of Guidemaker. Emails will come from a @tettra.co email address, so be on the lookup 👀 If you don't receive a beta invite and are very excited to join the beta, please reach out to us.

Announcement

11 months ago

11 months ago

Introducing the Guidemaker Beta

By Andy Cook

Welcome to Guidemaker! We're launching a beta version of the product you can test out. To get on the beta list, just sign up on Guidemaker.com and submit the beta request. What is Guidemaker? Guidemaker is exactly what the name implies - a guide maker :) Guidemaker makes it easy...

Announcement