“That needs to be documented.”

This oft repeated phrase can cast a dark cloud over an otherwise sunny day. The process of sitting down at the computer and wrestling with multiple programs for a few hours while you create and publish documentation is not for the faint of heart.

Perhaps the only phrase to rival it is:

“This documentation needs to be updated.”

The more visual your documentation, the harder updating can be. If you created videos you may feel like crying in the corner for a while before you sit down and record again. Or if you enlisted the help of screenshots you have your work cut out for you as you replace images and reapply annotations.

I’m here to tell you that you needn’t suffer so. ScreenSteps is here to help and now it publishes directly to MindTouch Deki, the open source collaboration and integration platform.

You see, ScreenSteps is different than other documentation tools you have used. It doesn’t have all of the bells and whistles of some documentation software, but it will allow you to create and publish documentation faster than ever before.

With ScreenSteps you naturally go through the process you are documenting, capturing still images of each step along the way. With each new image you capture a step is added to the ScreenSteps’ lesson open in the background.

Once you have all of your images you can quickly add titles, instructions and image annotations. Need to update a lesson? No problem. Just click the image replace button and capture a new screenshot. The step image is replaced and the editable annotations are left intact.

Of course writing your documentation is only part of the equation. You need to publish it as well. With the release of ScreenSteps 2.1.2 we are happy to announce MindTouch Deki support. No need to upload individual images and write markup by hand. ScreenSteps does all of the work for you so you can quickly add and update your documentation in MindTouch Deki. (see sample)

So cheer up. With ScreenSteps documentation gets done. We are offering a 20% discount to all customers who purchase ScreenSteps with “MINDTOUCH” entered as the Coupon Code active through Aug. 24th

Trevor DeVore
ScreenSteps.com |  Blue Mango Learning Systems
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