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Story Capture

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About This Feature

Story Capture is a GenAI-powered capture mode in the Walnut Extension, designed to jumpstart your guided demo creation process. With integrated voice capture, Story Capture enables creators to record real-time narration while capturing HTML content.

Using advanced GenAI, Story Capture transcribes your narration and intelligently pairs it with captured screen content and interactions—automatically generating a polished, step-by-step guided demo within minutes.

Snapshot 📸

  • Feature Status: Core Feature (included in all Walnut subscriptions)
  • Role Access: Admin, Editor
  • Location: Walnut Extension

Key Features

  • GenAI-powered capture mode with integrated voice recording for lightning-fast guided demo creation.
  • Flexible guide generation — generate guides from captures with or without voice narration. *If voice narration is not recorded, guides are created based on the content of captured screens.
  • Create engaging guided experiences like training walkthroughs, onboarding flows, and post-call follow-ups — with minimal setup and editing required.

Note: While Story Capture helps create polished demos quickly, some autogenerated content may require light editing or cleanup after creation to ensure it aligns perfectly with your messaging.

Quick Start Guide

⚠️ Before You Start Capturing:

Review our Capture Best Practices to prevent sizing or layout issues and ensure clean, pixel-perfect results every time.

  1. Open the Walnut Extension from your browser's toolbar.
  2. Your browser window will refresh, and a debugger banner will appear at the top. This banner is there to help and should be kept active during your entire capture session.

Debugger banner displayed at the top of the browser window in Walnut Extension

  1. Choose an existing template or create a new one, and click Record Story Capture to activate Story Capture mode.

Story Capture template selection screen

  1. When prompted, allow your browser to use your microphone.

Browser microphone permission prompt for Walnut Extension

  1. Click Start Recording to begin your Story Capture session.

Start Recording button in Story Capture UI

  1. Navigate through your platform just like a live demo, highlighting key features, workflows, and important areas.
  2. As you capture, right-click any element that you would like to annotate with a guide step. Emphasized elements will appear with an orange highlight and will be annotated in the guided flow.

Orange annotation highlight during Story Capture session

  1. Once you've recorded your walkthrough, click Done to finish your Story Capture session.

Story Capture 'Done' button after recording completion

  1. Open your template with the Edit your template button and select Create my story for me in the demo-builder pop-up.

Demo-builder with 'Create my story for me' option in Walnut

  1. You can also create auto-guides with or without audio narration directly from the Guides panel at any time.

Guides panel in Walnut Extension for generating AI steps

Pro Tip đź‘‘

No need to make it perfect! Story Capture won’t use your narration word-for-word, so it’s okay to pause or reword as you go.

FAQs

Can I generate AI guide steps without using Story Capture mode?

  • Yes! You can generate AI-based guide steps for any screens captured using the Walnut Extension (all capture modes). If using Story Capture mode, spoken narration is transcribed and incorporated into the generated guide content—adding additional context and clarity. If you capture screens without spoken narration, Walnut’s GenAI will generate guide steps using on-screen context and content alone.

Guides panel in the Walnut Editor showing the Create my story for me auto-guide generation option

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