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

Hey everyone! First off, thanks @maccaw for hunting us! We’re super stoked to be launching Scribe here on Product Hunt! We’re the team behind Cursive, a no-code automation platform. We originally built Scribe as an internal tool to document workflows to be automated. In working with our customers, we’ve seen that oftentimes documenting workflows is a challenge in and of itself. Here’s what we’ve learned: 🚫 Most process know-how is not written down - it lives in people’s minds as tribal knowledge 📓 What has been written down is static and stale - think of the training manual that no one opens again after on-boarding 🤯 No one likes creating user guides - it’s annoying and tedious to write up process steps in a google doc, create and import screenshots, paste images into emails, etc ℹ️ Yet, it’s more important than ever - with the rise of remote work, sharing “how-to” knowledge (digitally) has become a critical business imperative 💁‍♂️ We need a simpler way to share what we know with others - that doesn’t add to already heavy slack/zoom/email/communications overhead. Content needs to be easy to consume and even easier to create; ideally, it’s asynchronous, reusable for the creator, skimmable and digestible for the reader at their own pace, and referenceable for everyone. We realized that what we’d built with Scribe could be a solution to this problem. With this beta release of Scribe, we’ve made it easier than ever before to capture and share your “how-to” knowledge. One click, Scribe will watch you work your magic and turn what you do into an illustrated, shareable step-by-step user guide. Create guides for product documentation, training, on-boarding, remote support, and more. Download Scribe beta now to start creating. And best of all - Scribe is free to beta users! Check it out - we’d love your feedback 🙏

So it's easy as recording a loom...but instead of a video it outputs docs? (I hate the slowness of fast-forwarding through video...this seems elegant).

I've been using this a lot recently, my sweet spot is when customers have issues that are not common enough for FAQs; I can quickly create personalized guides and send them over. The PDF output is really well designed and looks super professional.

Looks useful. A few questions though: 1. Is it just the PDF output? Do you have any other formats in the roadmap? 2. I guess it's free for the beta, but do you have any specific pricing models in mind? One thing that is usually concerning with such products is that you can use the beta with full features and after the beta, the product suddenly becomes paid in a way that your invested time and effort is wasted.

Nice! As a PM, I often need to document how new features work in detail or train Operations. That takes either lots of screenshots/gdocs or videos. This looks like it solves that problem nicely. Kudos Cursive team for building something useful, simple, and intuitive.

Generally, the app is cool. I find it useful and easy to use. However, I found some things that didn't seem like a good UX to me. Here is some feedback about what you can check and maybe change: * Not everything in the application should be selectable. * Double-click to select is followed by the cursor being at the beginning. All text should be selected when the action is selected. * When the action description is deleted (set to an empty string), upon unselecting it, there is still the default text. This seems weird. * It would be nice if the window was larger, to accommodate the sometimes large actions. * The Welcome screen should be a bit more interactive, maybe with some screenshots/images. There is too much text. * The default workflow name should perhaps contain a date or something to make the user able to save it without renaming it. Perhaps you can create a default name for saving based on the workflow title.

Easy to use, intuitive, overall great!

What a great idea. Could middleground between loom videos and fullblown onboarding docs.

Scribe makes it easy to document anything in a jiff. Sharing what you know > keeping it to yourself. And now, it no longer requires macgyvering gdocs, screenshots, and illustrations together into something legible.

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.

Super cool !

This is sweet ?makers! Any plans for integrations with HelpDocs etc? Would be killer if you could export to the system that hosts documentation.

Amazing product!

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?

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.

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.).

Does the job! Useful features that work as described, would recommend

Amazing! This is just what we needed! Bravo!

Simple and works without any issues! I will be trying it out with my clients.

Great product by my coworkers!