Scribe

Scribe does the heavy lifting to automatically create your guide, but you can customise it to make it even better.

This guide explains how to use the advanced image editing and annotation features in Scribe. It covers cropping, annotating with shapes and text, redacting sensitive information, replacing screenshots, and zooming in or out.

Advanced image editing & annotations in Scribe

This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to edit your Scribe. It covers various editing functions such as changing the title, adding descriptions, changing icons, adding new steps, formatting text, and using the bulk step editor.

How to edit your Scribe

You can manually add steps, Tips and Alerts to your Scribe.
Step adds a new blank step.
Tip adds a green step. 
Alert adds a red step. 

How to add tips and alerts to your Scribe

Merge steps to help your audience with a short animation rather than a sequence of separate steps.

Merge steps in your Scribe using Magic Merge, or by selecting the steps you choose. Undo or split steps back out at any time.

Merge Scribe Steps

This guide provides essential instructions for effectively editing click targets in Scribe's screenshots by learning how to move, resize, and customize click targets, you can improve user engagement and comprehension. 

Editing screenshots allows you to crop or resize screenshots, add shapes and markups, adjust your colors and permanently redact sensitive information.

This is a Scribe Pro feature. If you'd like to upgrade your plan, you can do so here: https://scribe.com/pricing

How to Edit the Click Target from your Scribe's Screenshots

You would like to reorder your steps? No problem! Here's how you can drag and drop steps around.

How to reorder the steps within a Scribe

This editing and publishing workflow ensures that your teams can collaborate on updating documents with confidence and prevent accidental sharing of incomplete or incorrect steps, ensuring work gets done right. 

Only available to Enterprise users.

How to edit and publish a Scribe

Scribe doesn’t just document how you work. It analyzes your workflows, spots inefficiencies, and gives you suggestions to help your team work smarter. Available to Pro and Enterprise users. 

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How to improve workflows with AI

This guide provides step-by-step instructions on how to combine steps from multiple scribes. It includes tips on how to efficiently select and move the steps. If you need to merge information from different scribes into one, this guide will help you do it seamlessly.

How to combine steps from multiple Scribes

This guide offers a straightforward approach to using Smart Blur & Redact Forever effectively, ensuring your sensitive information is protected during screen captures. 

How to Use Smart Blur & Redact When Editing a Photo

This guide shows how Magic Edit automatically polishes a recorded Scribe and how to review or revert its changes. Follow-up instructions cover per-step controls for accepting or reversing specific edits and saving your final version.

Editing type	Description	Instructions
Magic edit	Automatically refine new Scribes, reducing the time spent editing and formatting by: Improving the title, description and step instructions Removing unnecessary or duplicate steps Merging similar actions Adding section headers. Note: Magic edit does does not support Scribes created with Voice transcription	How to use Magic Edit
Basic edits	Organise your content with: Descriptions App logos and tags Additional steps, tips & alerts Headers GIFs Text formatting Plus, learn how to bulk edit your steps.	How to edit your Scribe
Image & annotations	Edit your screenshots by cropping, annotating or redacting sensitive information. You can also adjust the click target’s shape, size and colour.	Advanced image editing & annotations in Scribe How to Edit the Click Target from your Scribe's Screenshots
Adding Tips & Alerts	Add Tips and Alerts to make your steps clearer and easier to follow, help users avoid common pitfalls and better understand key instructions.	How to add tips and alerts to your Scribe
Reorder your steps	Need to adjust your process flow? Simply drag and drop steps to reorder them and keep everything clear and logical.	How to reorder the steps within a Scribe
Magic merge & combining steps	Use AI to automatically combine similar steps based on context and captured images. You can always undo and make manual adjustments at any time.	Merge Scribe Steps
Moving/ combining steps with other Scribes	How to move or combine steps from one Scribe to another.	How to Combine Steps from multiple Scribes
Smart blur & redacting photos	Scribe offers three levels of redaction: Set by your System Admin Smart blur during capture Manual redaction during editing.	How to Use Smart Blur & Redact When Editing a Photo
Improving workflows with AI	Scribe doesn’t just document your work—it analyses workflows, identifies inefficiencies and suggests ways to help your team work smarter.	How to improve workflows with AI
Done vs Publish	Edits are made in draft mode, so changes won’t impact viewers until you’re ready. Your updates are autosaved for review and collaboration, while the last published version remains live until you click “Publish.”	How to edit and publish a Scribe
Recapture steps	If a process or UI has changed, or you need to add more steps, you can easily recapture within your existing Scribe using the extension or desktop app.	Recapturing Steps From an Existing Scribe

Editing a Scribe