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So if you work in coaching or training or you just share a lot of step-by-step tutorials with
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co-workers or teammates, I'm going to show you a new Chrome extension that's going to make your
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life so much easier and that is called Guide. But before I do, feel free to subscribe to my
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YouTube channel where each week I'll be sharing new videos on a variety of different topics
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So this is Guide. You can find it at guide.com. It is a Chrome extension and let me tell you
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it is awesome. To get started, what you'll want to do is to click this button that says
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install free extension and that will add Guide into your Chrome extensions which obviously means
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you need to use the Chrome browser. Once Guide is installed, you can go right to the website that
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you want to create a tutorial for. My tutorial is here. It is Synthesia because they recently
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redid their interface. So I want to make visual documentation that's going to walk my teammates
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through using Synthesia. So if I just click on the Chrome extension right over here at the top
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it now gives me the option to capture the window and it's now recording me. So I just have to go through
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and show what I want to demonstrate. So I'm going to create a scene
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and I think I'm just about done. So once you're finished, all we have to do is
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go back over here to our Chrome extensions. Let's go ahead and hit stop
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You'll see the Guide button at the bottom left hand side. It's now going to take us to app.guide.co
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where it will take a few seconds to process. Okay, so we're good and you'll notice if I scroll
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down a little bit, it took screenshots of every step that I did to create this video. You can
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also find those screenshots right over here to the left hand side for easy access. So what that means
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is not only do you have step-by-step directions, but you also have a visual that will go along
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with those individual steps. You'll also notice that if I hit the play button, it's going to
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create almost like a slideshow where you can view each of those steps in succession. Now
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what happens if you want to add additional information on these slides? Guide makes it
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really easy. You just have to scroll up at the top where it says edit. That is now going to open up
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an editing option which will be very similar to PowerPoint. You can do lots of things such as move
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the text around, change the color of the text. If I wanted to, I could change the background of this
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image. But what I really like is right over here you'll notice that you can move different elements
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of your slides around if you would like. The other option is what if you wanted to add a voiceover
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That's no problem. There is this option to select voiceover where you just have to select your
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microphone right over here. There's also an option where I can add a text to voice feature
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So rather than me speaking in a voice, I can just go ahead and type some text and choose one of these
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sample voices to automatically read that text back to whoever will be watching this tutorial
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Once we're finished, let's go ahead and select save changes. Okay, and now we are good. We want
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to take this visual documentation and we want to share it with our co-workers. So there's a few
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different options. If you click the share button right over here at the top right hand side, you'll
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notice you can copy it as a link, copy it as a gif, or even copy it as html text which is nice
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There's also this option as a smart copy which is going to give you several different choices of
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where you can embed this video into. There's also an option where you can create either an mp4 or
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a gif file. So a lot of different ways for you to share your work. So what I'm going to do is just
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select this option. I'm going to hit copy link. So now when I email this to my co-workers, they click
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on this link. This is what they'll have. It's a really nice documentation along with screenshots
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and potentially even voiceovers. I think this is so much more helpful than email or maybe a screencast
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or even text directions for co-workers. This will make your life so much easier and I can't wait to
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try it out more. So the website is called Guide. You can download the free Guide Chrome extension
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and you can create your own interactive tutorials that you can share with co-workers, students
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or anyone else that you would like. So thank you so much for watching this video. If you have any
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questions, go ahead and leave them in the comments section below
