Screenshots for documentation
8 guidesCapturing, standardising and maintaining the images in your help centre - including what to do when a redesign invalidates all of them at once.
Read the guides or get The Screenshot Handbook as a PDFPractical guides to the tasks documentation is actually made of. No theory, no preamble - the steps, the mistakes, and the point at which doing it by hand stops scaling.
10 collections are also available as a free PDF handbook - checklist included.
Capturing, standardising and maintaining the images in your help centre - including what to do when a redesign invalidates all of them at once.
Read the guides or get The Screenshot Handbook as a PDFRecording, narrating and re-recording product walkthroughs without a studio, a quiet room, or a seventh take.
Read the guides or get The Screencast Handbook as a PDFThe artefacts themselves - articles, FAQs, error pages, release notes - and how to structure each so people can follow them.
Read the guides or get The Help Article Handbook as a PDFDocumentation decays silently. How to notice, what to fix first, and what to delete.
Read the guides or get The Documentation Upkeep Handbook as a PDFGetting your documentation onto your own domain, into search results, and findable by the people already looking for it.
Read the guides or get The Help Centre SEO Handbook as a PDFCategories, naming and article boundaries - the decisions that determine whether anyone finds the right page.
Read the guides or get The Help Centre Structure Handbook as a PDFWorking out whether any of it is working, when the success signature is that nothing happens.
Read the guides or get The Documentation Metrics Handbook as a PDFPeople now ask assistants how to use your product. What they get back is a documentation problem.
Read the guides or get The AI-Readable Docs Handbook as a PDFGetting content out of the tool it is trapped in and into a help centre, without losing links or history.
Read the guides or get The Documentation Migration Handbook as a PDFWho owns it, when it gets written, and how it survives the sprint it competes with.
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