General Documentation Terms

What Is a Step-by-Step Guide?

A step-by-step guide is a document that breaks a process or task into sequential, numbered steps.

A step-by-step guide is a document that breaks a process or task into sequential, numbered steps. Each step includes a clear instruction and often a visual aid like a screenshot, so the reader can follow along without guessing.

Step-by-step guides are the most approachable form of documentation because they remove ambiguity. Folge builds them automatically by capturing a screenshot on every mouse click, then lets you annotate and export the result.

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How do you write a good step-by-step guide?
Start each step with an action verb, keep one action per step, add a screenshot where the interface matters, and test the guide by following it yourself.

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