Automated annotations

When you work with any browser or desktop app, Folge will, by default, attempt to extract metadata about the controls you interact with, understand their value, title, or name, and prefill the step title with this useful information. As with other features in Folge, this behavior is highly customizable.

You don't need to enable this helpful feature explicitly, but you can permanently turn it off in the Application Settings.

Folge doesn't just fill in the element's name - it also chooses the right action verb based on the type of control you clicked. Clicking a dropdown produces Select "Country", clicking a text field produces Enter "Email", and everything else stays Click "Submit". See Smart step titles for the full list and how it decides.

The only thing you configure is the Guide language - the language these prefilled titles are written in. It defaults to your app's interface language, but you can set it independently, which is useful when you run Folge in one language but author your guides in another. You'll find it in the Application Settings.

When Folge fails to extract metadata of the UI control, the Step Title falls back to a simple "Click here" (in your Guide language), which makes sense most of the time.

Automated Annotations work for both Mac and Windows. This feature successfully parses 70-80% of the elements, but its success heavily depends on the developer of the application/website you are working with. If they fail to provide meaningful information about their UI, Folge can't properly parse it.