I'm using Clarify to create instructions on how to set up email accounts for my clients. There are so many different email programs out there and the settings are always in different places. Clarify makes it easy for me to "show" clients where to enter the correct info to get their email up and running quickly!

Would you prefer suggestions and feedback via Twitter to Clarify posts or via this Forum?

So far for me it's quick instructions to coworkers.

My boss is on vacation but when he returns it will be to help explain suggested changes in our website.  He's very visual and sometimes doesn't follow my spoken or written description so Clarify is perfect, now I can draw him a picture :)  

I also foresee using Clarify to document changes - it used to be this and now it's this. 

Another will be to provide step-by-step instructions for complex operations to be added to our knowledge base which is mostly in Evernote.

I will do it that way unless another method becomes available.  If you one day add a feature to directly email a document, for instance, I could send it to my private Evernote email address - otherwise copy/paste would be the way to go.  Maybe in version 8.3 you guys will have time to look at the Evernote API if there's enough demand but certainly not now - demand is low and cost is pretty high I suspect, especially at this stage in the lifecycle of Clarify.

In either case I think it needs to be available in Evernote in our situation so all our knowledge bits are in one place. Hmmm, I wonder how it would work fi we just put a link in Evernote to the Clarify page... that may be another method to do what we need.  No sense taking it out of the hosted site - if a doc changes then it's a bigger pain to reconstruct, share to .me and then copy/paste back to Evernote.  Just a link in EN would save at least one step in that case.

Rambling, I know, but when a child (Clarify) is born the future is full of possibilities!  :)

It is possible to copy and paste into Mail and email Clarify created content to Evernote. The trick is to make sure the message Format is Rich Text otherwise all the images will appear at the bottom of the note in Evernote.

True enough Neil, but if I'm going to cut and paste then it's just as easy to do that into the Evernote client as it is into the email client so I'd just go straight to Evernote.  I expect that one day down the road Clarify will benefit from a direct email interface so if it came down to a built-in email versus cut and paste then email would be the easiest.  Thanks for the idea though.

Hi Jim, an advantage of using a clarify-it.com / screensteps.me link in Evernote is that the link remains the same even when the original Clarify document is updated and the images changed.

That's a great point Neil, and thanks to the gang for keeping the name the same when revisions are made... that's big!  The link in Evernote will do nicely since it's one less step to revise and from Evernote you can just click to go to the document - easy.

I just found another use.  :) I'm loving this!

I ran across an AppleScript to hide all open windows in Lion and wanted to show people in my Google + circles how to do it for themselves.  I did a Clarify doc with all the details and posted a quick "How to hide windows" in Google + with a link to my Clarify doc.  Google + even did a thumbnail of my doc so everyone can see there are pictures. :)

I have been using it for QA for sites, databases, etc.  I can create a simple review sheet, of where all the corrections need to be made and also insert my suggestions or questions for clarification.  Then I would like to package it into a nice pdf and send it off to the team to review and make the updates to the errors.  It's better to have it all in one narration rather than C&P from skitch.  However...I would love a export to pdf functionality built in, rather than the runaround steps I use to recreate it.  (export to ScreenSteps.me, visit site, use Skitch to screen shot entire site, crop out excess parts of site (right rail, header, footer...so client doesn't freak out that their data is on the web), drag out pdf, email to recipient).

So... 1 vote for a new use case which requires 'Export to pdf' in the menu.

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Hi Uel, I'm guessing that 'Export to PDF' is a feature that will separate Clarify from ScreenStep Desktop. ScreenSteps Desktop does offer "Export to PDF / Word / Blog".

It is possible to Print to PDF from Safari (although sometimes images can get split over two pages). There is a bookmarklet called 'The Printliminator' http://css-tricks.com/examples/ThePrintliminator/ that can 'turn off' parts of a webpage so that they do not 'print'. This (currently) works on Clarify-it / Screensteps.me pages to turn off the header and footer. I find it works best with Safari browser.

Is printing a planned feature?  I know the main distribution is on the .me site but if we can print from Clarify itself then we can use OS X's built-in PDF feature. 

Request for Video Embed Code:  I know that ScreenSteps Desktop can embed video on Screensteps.me / Clarify-it.com. It would be nice if Clarify could too.

I see Clarify as the iOS version of ScreenSteps with its simplified button interface and ability to share, simply and quickly, ideas, thoughts or explanations without the complexity of depth offered by Libraries, Chapters, Lessons and Manuals.

Video screen captures can be made quickly by Jing or even from the iPhone / iPod and in moments uploaded to YouTube. These can enhance the quick-click-boom Clarify static image post. The ability to embed video would allow  the combination of a static image to annotate and a moving video to demonstrate. Alternatively, a cute cat video could be embedded with a still shot of the favourite head-in-a-box moment -- "Hey have you seen this. My favourite moment! LOL"

I see the difference between ScreenSteps Desktop and Clarify being that ScreenSteps makes manuals and Clarify makes 'back-of-the-envelop', single page fliers. ScreenSteps is aimed at the Corporate / Educational / Business / ScreenSteps Live user and Clarify is for the individual user wanting to send an email, Tweet or question to Customer Support.

Clarify has Share options (text and image to Clipboard or to Clarify-it) and in addition ScreenSteps has Export options to Blogs, PDF, Word, SSLive. Can embedded video code be a Share option?

Have just downloaded the beta.   As a doddering 74 year old, I teach senior citizens how to use PCs - even though I have been a Macman for decades!    Used Screensteps to make tutorials for them.  Limited use of Clarify so far - but enables me to use Divvy and put Clarify on right of screen [24 inch iMac] and Parallels with XP and Serif PagePlus Essentials on the left.  Can easily take screen captures from the left to appear on the right and then annotate them.  Have uploaded trials and checked them out on Safari - no problems.    Looking forward to doing some real work for the poor PC souls.