howto-pad
An AI chat answer, turned into an interactive step-by-step guide — one HTML file that opens in any browser, works offline and sends nothing anywhere.
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Free · By opening or downloading howto-pad you accept the EULA.
How it works
- Copy the prompt. howto-pad carries a prompt for the chat AI already in use. The AI asks who the guide is for, then writes it — with a short intro, numbered steps and a closing.
- Paste the answer. The steps become a guide: edit in place, add screenshots, videos and files, mark pictures, set options readers choose (Windows or Mac), and fields they fill in once.
- Save and share. The saved file is the guide. Readers open it in a browser, go step by step, mark steps as done and ask their own chat AI when a step does not work.
What stays where
There is no server behind it. The tool makes no network requests of its own; pictures and videos are embedded in the file. Media you embed by web address instead is loaded by the reader's browser from that site. A reader's progress, notes and entries stay in that reader's browser. Guides made with it carry no branding — they belong to whoever makes them.
Runs in current Edge, Chrome and Firefox; reading works on phones. Free to use, also at work. © 2026 Andreas Schnorr · All rights reserved — see the EULA. The AIM-TO-PACE framework — the method described on aim-to-pace.ai — is CC BY 4.0; howto-pad itself, including the wording of its built-in prompts, is licensed under the EULA.