Editing Demo Steps

Once you capture a demo, you can tweak and edit it as much as you like. We built HowdyGo to make it easy to edit demos post recording, so you only ever need to record once. You can also edit your captured UI, add chapters, set up auto-progress, and enable animated playback.

Editing an Annotation

You can easily edit an annotation to more clearly call out specific parts of your interface.

Inserting chapters into your demo

Chapters are a great way to break up a long demo into discrete sections that can help your audience navigate key parts of your demo.

Deleting Steps

To delete a step, just click the trash icon on the step’s thumbnail. If you have a few steps to delete, you can also use the delete or backspace keys on your keybard to make things a bit easier.

Deleting Multiple Steps

You can also delete multiple steps at once. Select multiple steps using Shift + Click or Cmd + Click (or ctrl in Windows) the click delete.

Reordering Steps

To reorder a step, simply drag and drop its thumbnail to a new position in the demo.

Inserting New Steps

There are 4 main ways in which you can add steps to a demo:

1. Duplicating an existing step: This allows you to fully duplicate a step including the annotation’s text.
2. Inserting a step from current demo: This lets you insert any step that was originally recorded in the demo including any steps you may have previously deleted.
3. Inserting new steps into the demo: This will let you use the Chrome extension to capture a brand new demo flow that will be appended to the end of the chosen demo.
4. Copy steps into the demo: This lets you copy one or multiple steps from another demo into the current demo.

Swapping the Screen on a Step

You can swap the background screen on an existing step — including overlay steps — without needing to re-record. This is useful when your product UI has changed and you want to update the demo without rebuilding it from scratch.

Previewing from the Current Step

When previewing your demo, you can choose to start playback from the currently selected step rather than always from the beginning. This makes it faster to test edits on specific steps without watching the entire demo each time.

Changing scroll positions in the captured UI

The scroll position of all elements within the captured UI is automatically saved whenever the annotation is moved or resized on your screen. Scroll positions are also preserved when navigating between steps.

If for some reason you do need to explicitly change the scroll position of an element, simply scroll it to where you want it to be and then move the annotation slightly so that it saves the new scroll positions.