![]() ![]() If you miss the notification, or you want to go back later, click on the record icon in the menu or notification bar, and click on the recording you would like to visit.Neither option uses audio (GIFs never have audio). ![]() Click on the ‘All Done’ button to go to the video or click on the ‘GIF’ link to go to a GIF instead. Instead, you will be notified of a link once it is done. None of the screencasts are saved on your computer. Once you are done, click on the ‘Stop’ in the menu or notifications area (same area as starting the screencast) and Recordit will start processing and sending the recording to the cloud.Click and drag over the area you want to record and it will start recording immediately.Once you are ready to record, click on the Recordit icon in either your menu bar (Mac) or the notifications area of the task bar (Windows).You will know the program is running when you see the rectangular icon with a dot in the middle in your notifications bar in the bottom-right corner of the screen.Find the Recordit program and double-click it to start.Once it is finished, click on ‘Finish’.Click on ‘Install’ to start the installation.Select whether you would like to create a desktop icon or not and then click on ‘Next>’.Give permission to run it and then click on ‘Next >’ to start the install. You may be prompted by Windows about running the app.Once the installer has downloaded, double-click on it to run it.Go to and click on ‘Download for Windows’ button near the bottom of the page.You will know it is running once you see the Record button in your menu bar (it looks like a rectangle with a dot in the middle of it).Go to the Applications folder and double-click on ‘Recordit’ to start the program.To run this app (this only needs to be done once), follow the instructions from this website under the “Trusting Apps on a Case-by-Case Basis” title. This is a new security feature Apple added a couple of updates ago, stopping third-party apps from running unless they are downloaded from the Mac App Store. Double-click on the app and you will likely get a security warning and won’t allow you to run it.Once it is unzipped, move the file to your Applications folder.It is a ZIP file and depending on your browser, may need to be opened by double-clicking on the ZIP file.Go to and click on ‘Download for Mac’ button near the bottom of the page.Here is how it works: Recordit Mac install: I have started using a tool called Recordit, a free app for Windows and Mac that makes a simple screencast that is cloud stored as both a video and a GIF. There are a number of ways to create a screencast for free, but not many of them export as an animated GIF. Today, Marisa asked me what tool I used to create them and I thought it might be helpful to do up a post showing all of the steps I used. Yesterday, I created a comprehensive guide to GroupZap and I used a number of animated GIFs to demonstrate certain functions.
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