Domo Domo

As part of my IT job, I sometimes have to put together instructions for how to install or use a program.  Would be nice to automate this.  The hardest part of the whole thing is taking the screenshots and integrating them into a document.  The more visual the instructions are, and the less words, the generally more effective they are.

I’m thinking of a webapp where you could import screenshots, and then easily mark up the screen shots with instructions.  Draw a box around the ‘OK’ button in a screenshot, and enter ‘Click this’ and an arrow with the text is automatically painted on the screenshot.

It would also be cool if you could customize certain fields based on a query string.  So if I am sending instructions to user ‘szissou’, the user field in the screenshot is automatically filled in with szissou.

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