# Documents

> The written step-by-step guide that ships alongside the video.

# Documents

Every render produces a written guide as well as a video — the same steps, in text, from the same
recording. Neither one is transcribed from the other, so they can't drift apart.

## Why both

Some people won't watch a video. Some can't — they're in an open-plan office, or they need to copy a
value out of step four. A written guide is also what search engines and support agents can actually
use.

Maintaining both by hand is where teams give up, which is why this is generated rather than asked
of you.

## Editing a document

Documents open in their own editor. Edit them like any document — the text is yours to change.

## Density

Documents can be regenerated at a different level of detail: a terse checklist for people who know
the product, a fuller walkthrough for people who don't. Same source, different density.

## Regenerating

If you change the video, regenerate the document to match. This is a deliberate step rather than an
automatic one, so edits you've made to the text aren't silently overwritten.

## Exporting

Export a document to publish it in a wiki, a help centre, or anywhere else, independently of where
the video goes.