# UIHike

> Windows AI desktop app to organize your information. Capture your workflow as ordered steps — screenshots, URLs, the elements you click, and your notes — then share it as one link.

UIHike records what you do as a sequence of steps. Each step preserves the screenshot, the page URL, the specific element clicked, and your note. Edits are non-destructive: annotations, redactions, and crops live as layers over the original PNG. Publish to a public URL at go.uihike.com/published/{id}, share with a token, or export to HTML, Markdown, PDF, or PowerPoint.

## Product
- [UIHike](https://www.uihike.com/): Windows AI desktop app to organize your information into context.
- [Tour](https://www.uihike.com/tour): Visual walkthrough of recording, editing, and sharing a UIHike project.

## Solutions
- [Organize context](https://www.uihike.com/organize-context): Turn scattered screenshots, links, and notes into an ordered, shareable record.
- [Share walkthroughs](https://www.uihike.com/share-walkthroughs): Send one public link — no install required for viewers.
- [Preserve knowledge](https://www.uihike.com/preserve-knowledge): Capture institutional knowledge as you work, with version history and step-level comments.

## Features
- [Step recorder](https://www.uihike.com/step-recorder): Capture each step as screenshot, URL, clicked element, and your note.
- [Screenshot app](https://www.uihike.com/screenshot-app): Full-page, region, or window screenshots with non-destructive annotations.
- [Markdown editor](https://www.uihike.com/markdown-editor): Edit step descriptions in markdown alongside captures.
- [AI assistant](https://www.uihike.com/ai-assistant): Opt-in AI for step descriptions, page intelligence, and pattern-based extraction.
- [Redaction](https://www.uihike.com/redaction): Mark sensitive regions; redacted export is generated, original PNG preserved.

## Use cases
- [Trip planning](https://www.uihike.com/trip-planning): Plan a trip by capturing flights, stays, and reservations as one ordered walkthrough.
- [House hunting](https://www.uihike.com/house-hunt): Track listings, viewings, and notes across sites as a single document.
- [Job search](https://www.uihike.com/job-search): Document every application, interview, and follow-up as a structured walkthrough.
- [Azure governance](https://www.uihike.com/azure-governance): Capture Azure portal procedures and reviews as auditable walkthroughs.

## Blog
- [Blog index](https://www.uihike.com/blog): Articles on process documentation, async work, and replacing wikis with walkthroughs.
- [Document workflows before you automate them with AI](https://www.uihike.com/blog/document-workflows-before-ai-automation): If a human cannot follow the workflow from documentation, an AI agent probably should not run it either.
- [How IT teams should document workflows without meetings](https://www.uihike.com/blog/document-it-workflows-without-meetings): A practical rule for IT teams: if a workflow has to be explained twice, capture it before it becomes another meeting.
- [Async communication for distributed teams: stop hopping on a quick call](https://www.uihike.com/blog/async-communication-stop-quick-call): The 15-minute call that turns into 45, the follow-up Slack message, the screenshot you send afterwards. How one walkthrough link replaces all of it for distributed teams.
- [Process documentation tools, compared: wiki, video, walkthrough, AI](https://www.uihike.com/blog/process-documentation-tools-compared): Four shapes of process documentation, what each is actually for, and where each falls down. A practical category map for picking the right tool for 'how do I do X?'.
- [The wiki is dead: why walkthroughs replace Confluence pages](https://www.uihike.com/blog/wiki-is-dead-walkthroughs-replace-confluence): Confluence isn't broken because Atlassian shipped a bad product. It's broken because the wiki shape is the wrong shape for procedural knowledge. Why a sequence of steps beats a blank page.
- [Tribal knowledge is killing your team. Here's how to fix it.](https://www.uihike.com/blog/fix-tribal-knowledge-on-your-team): Tribal knowledge isn't a culture problem; it's a capture problem. Why scheduled documentation always loses, and how capture-while-you-work flips the economics.
- [Why screenshots alone don't make good documentation](https://www.uihike.com/blog/why-screenshots-alone-arent-documentation): A screenshot without a URL, a clicked element, or a sentence of context is a riddle. Why screenshot-only docs decay so fast, and what a walkthrough actually adds on top.
- [How to hand off a workflow before you go on leave](https://www.uihike.com/blog/how-to-hand-off-workflow-before-leave): The handoff doc you write the week before vacation is the worst doc you'll ever produce. A saner approach: capture as you work over 90 days, hand over the recordings, stop being the team's single point of failure.
- [How to create a product demo you can send in a DM](https://www.uihike.com/blog/how-to-create-product-demo-for-dm): The 30-minute Zoom demo is dying. Buyers want to evaluate on their own time. How to make a demo that fits in a Slack message, opens instantly, and answers the question before the call.
- [How to reduce support tickets by writing better help docs](https://www.uihike.com/blog/how-to-reduce-support-tickets-with-help-docs): Most help articles don't deflect tickets because they don't show how. The fix is replacing prose with walkthroughs — real screenshots, real URLs, real elements. Practical guide to a self-service library that answers customers.
- [How to make a step-by-step tutorial without recording video](https://www.uihike.com/blog/how-to-make-tutorial-without-video): Video tutorials look professional and are slower to make, slower to consume, and a nightmare to update. How to make a text-and-screenshot tutorial that beats a video on every axis except feel.
- [How to build a software onboarding guide new hires will actually read](https://www.uihike.com/blog/how-to-build-software-onboarding-guide): Most onboarding docs get skimmed in week one and forgotten in week two. The fix isn't longer wikis — it's walkthroughs with real screenshots, real URLs, and a sequence the new hire can follow at their own pace.
- [How to write a standard operating procedure (SOP) in 30 minutes](https://www.uihike.com/blog/how-to-write-sop-in-30-minutes): Most SOPs die because writing them takes longer than doing the work. The fix is to write the SOP while you do the work. End-to-end walkthrough with a five-section template and an export plan.
- [How to document a bug report developers will actually fix](https://www.uihike.com/blog/how-to-document-bug-report-developers-fix): What separates a bug report fixed in an hour from one that sits in the backlog for a month. The five fields that matter, the ones that don't, and how to capture them without typing every step by hand.
- [Snagit + Confluence vs UIHike: stop stitching screenshots together](https://www.uihike.com/blog/snagit-confluence-vs-uihike): The real cost of the screenshot → annotate → paste → describe loop. Where Snagit and Confluence still win, where the seams show up, and what changes when capture and document are the same step.
- [7 best Scribe alternatives in 2026 (free and paid)](https://www.uihike.com/blog/7-best-scribe-alternatives-2026): Honest notes on Tango, Guidde, Supademo, iorad, Trainual, Loom, and UIHike. What each is actually for. Where each one falls down.
- [Scribe vs UIHike: a hands-on comparison](https://www.uihike.com/blog/scribe-vs-uihike): How the two tools actually differ when you sit down to document a real workflow. Capture surface, redaction, export, lock-in.
- [Hello, world](https://www.uihike.com/blog/hello-world): First post. Why we're starting a blog and what to expect from it.