Writing a step-by-step guide means doing the task, then describing it from memory, and the description is usually where mistakes creep in. The Chrome Recorder removes that gap: it watches the tab while you do the thing once and drafts the write-up from what actually happened.
It produces two kinds of output — a help center article or a changelog entry — from the same recording flow.
Install the Gleap Recorder from the Chrome Web Store. The Gleap icon then appears in your toolbar.
Click it and choose Sign in with Gleap to connect it to your project. If you work across several projects, you can connect them all and switch with the dropdown at the top of the plugin — worth checking before you record, so the draft doesn't land in the wrong place.
Two settings, both easier to get right now than to fix afterwards.
Recording type — a help article gives you a step-by-step guide; a changelog gives you a release note. This decides the shape of what you get.
Detail level — Brief for a short workflow with just the key steps, Standard for most things, Detailed when the guide needs extra context and tips.
You can also select a microphone and narrate as you go. It's optional — the draft can be built from your clicks alone — but narration is what turns a list of steps into an explanation, because it captures why you did something, which no amount of watching can infer. If no microphones are listed, use the button to grant permission.
Do the task the way a customer would, not the way you would. Experts skip steps without noticing — using a keyboard shortcut, starting from a page nobody else has bookmarked — and those gaps end up in the draft as missing steps.
Start from where a customer starts, move deliberately, and avoid detours into anything you don't want documented.
What arrives is a draft, and it should be treated as one. It's accurate about what you did but knows nothing about why the reader is there, what could go wrong, or what to do when it does.
The edits worth making are the same every time: retitle it as the question a customer would ask, add the one prerequisite the recording assumed, and say what a successful result looks like. Then publish it, since a draft helps nobody and is invisible to your AI.
