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Recording tips
Web apps and Chrome
Freshguide reads button names from macOS Accessibility. Native Mac apps and Safari usually expose good names. Chrome, Electron apps and some web apps expose names only partly. When a control has no readable name, the step says “Click here”, gets a red ring around the click point and is marked Needs a name.
- Fix it in the editor: click the step and type a new name. It takes a few seconds.
- The “Needs a name” filter in the review screen lists every such step.
- If one web app often gives “Click here”, tell us which one at Report a problem.
Multiple displays
Freshguide captures the window you click in, on whichever display it is. To capture a whole display instead, choose Capture: Full display in Recording Options.
Typing
- Typing capture needs Input Monitoring. Text typed in one field becomes one step.
- Password fields and fields that look like password fields are never captured. They show as
••••. - Long text is shortened to 60 characters in the step sentence.
Keep it tidy
- ⌃⌥⌘P pauses recording. Clicks are not recorded while paused.
- ⌃⌥⌘M adds a note step.
- Turn on Hide my desktop icons in screenshots in Recording Options for cleaner full-display shots.