Every team has the same problem. Someone knows how to do the thing, and nobody else does. So they write it up — screenshots pasted into a Word doc, arrows drawn in whatever tool was handy, twenty minutes of fighting with formatting before anyone even reads it. Then the interface changes and the whole thing is wrong. Pathsmith is built to make that entire cycle cheap. Capture a screen, mark it up, write the step, move on. What comes out the other side is a clean, structured path — a real how-to, with real screenshots, that took minutes instead of an afternoon.
The part that surprises people is what Pathsmith does with the documentation you already have. Point it at a PowerPoint deck and it converts the whole thing — slide by slide, images and all — into an editable path. Same with Word documents. Years of training decks and process docs stop being dead weight and become a starting point, which means you’re not choosing between the tool and your existing library. Everything Pathsmith produces is plain Markdown with standard image files, stored wherever your team already shares files. It exports to Markdown, HTML, and PDF, and the HTML pastes straight into Confluence with the screenshots intact. No cloud account, no lock-in, no vendor sitting between you and your own documentation.
Pathsmith is in active testing now, being used daily to build real documentation before it goes out the door. It runs on macOS and Windows, and it’ll be a one-time purchase — no subscription, because a tool you own shouldn’t come with a monthly bill. Want to know when it ships? Drop your email below and you’ll be among the first to hear.