Creating instructions
Record, import, edit, mark up and organise.
23 articles
- Create a new instructionHow to start a new instruction: on a PC with a title and folder, on a phone straight into the camera, or from an existing PDF.Guide
- Record steps with the cameraTake photos and short videos straight in GIRI: on a phone, on a tablet or with the webcam on a PC. Every recording becomes a step.Guide
- Import photos and videosTurn existing photos and videos into steps: drag and drop on a PC, or pick them from the phone's library. GIRI converts long videos itself.Guide
- Create from PDF or photos (AI)Turn an existing work instruction, as a PDF or photos, into a proposal with steps, chapters and warnings. You review it and take it over.Guide
- Record your screen for software instructionsFor instructions on SAP, ERP or other programs: you work as usual and GIRI takes a picture after every click. The pictures become steps.Guide
- Edit steps: text, warnings, order, deletingAdd a title and description to each step, set warnings, move and delete steps, and bring deleted steps back.Guide
- Chapters and text-only stepsStructure long instructions with chapters and add steps without a picture, so that workers find their way faster.Guide
- Add markings and symbolsPut arrows, circles, numbers, text, ISO 7010 safety signs and emojis right onto the photo or video, on a PC and on a phone.Guide
- Trim videos and crop picturesSet the start and end of a video, or choose a cut-out of a photo, so that workers only see what matters.Guide
- Animate symbols and let them follow the videoMake symbols pulse, bounce or blink, and let them follow the marked spot in a video instead of pausing the video.Guide
- Upload your own symbolsUpload your company logo, your own pictograms or photos of parts as symbols. They are then available across the whole workspace.Guide
- Format text and protect it from translationUse bold, lists and links in step texts, and protect technical terms or part numbers from automatic translation.Guide
- Set up a checklist and signatureDecide which steps workers confirm and whether they sign at the end. The results end up in the job-done log.Guide
- Create folders and file instructionsFolders sort instructions, for example by line or machine, and decide which teams can see the instructions inside them.Guide
- Find instructions: search, filters, teamsFull-text search across titles and step texts, status filters, sorting and the team filter: how to find any instruction again quickly.Guide
- Instructions in other languagesGIRI translates instructions into 13 languages with DeepL as soon as someone picks a language. How to prepare your texts and check the result.Guide
- Export an instruction as PDFDownload an instruction as an A4 PDF with a cover page, approval status and signature field, in the original or one of 13 languages.Guide
- Preview: what workers seeThe preview shows the current state exactly like the worker view. It does not count views or save checklists.Guide
- Set the preview imageChoose the picture an instruction shows in the list and on the workers' start card, and optionally on the QR sheet and QR poster.Guide
- Duplicate an instructionA copy as a new draft: all steps, pictures and settings, but without approvals and with its own link and QR code.Guide
- Trash and archiveDeleted instructions stay in the trash for 30 days and are then archived. How to bring them back, single steps included.Guide
- Two people editing one instructionHow GIRI merges changes made by two people, when it asks you to decide, and what to keep in mind when you work at the same time.Overview
- Recording and editing without a connectionWhat works in the installed GIRI app without a connection, what GIRI uploads later and what you need a connection for.Overview