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HubSpot Workflow Docs by Howly is a free Chrome extension that turns a HubSpot workflow into clean, shareable Markdown. You open a workflow, click a button, and get a readable document of its enrollment criteria and actions. Copy it, or download a .md file. Document one workflow or a batch at once. It runs entirely in your browser. There’s no account to create, no API key, no server, and no AI service. Nothing about your workflows is sent anywhere.
Workflow Docs is read-only. It reads what’s rendered on the workflow page and writes a document from it. It never creates, edits, enables, disables, or deletes anything in HubSpot. It doesn’t touch your cookies, credentials, or private HubSpot APIs.

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Install

Add it from the Chrome Web Store:

Get Workflow Docs by Howly

Install the extension, then refresh any HubSpot tabs you already had open.
Once installed, the documentation controls only appear when you’re on a HubSpot workflow page. You won’t see them anywhere else.

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Document one workflow

  1. Open a workflow in the HubSpot workflow editor.
  2. Open the enrollment panel and any action details you want captured, and let the canvas finish loading.
  3. Click Document workflow in the bottom right.
  4. Review the document, then choose Copy Markdown or Download .md.
The extension scans the canvas across its scroll and zoom views, combining actions as HubSpot loads each one. A scan takes up to about 3 seconds. It restores your scroll and zoom position afterward and never changes the workflow itself. The dialog tells you how many actions it documented, and flags a review prompt only when some may be missing. If you edit the workflow, close the document and run it again.

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Document several workflows

  1. Open HubSpot’s workflows list and let the rows load.
  2. Select the workflows you want using HubSpot’s own checkboxes.
  3. Click Document selected in the bottom right.
You can also click Document workflows first, then tick rows directly in HubSpot. The button updates with your selection count, and nothing is captured until you click it with a selection. The extension opens one temporary background tab at a time, scans each workflow, and closes the tab. Keep the original list tab open until it finishes. Every workflow shows a status as it goes (queued, loading, scanning, captured, or failed), and one failure doesn’t stop the rest. You get a single combined .md file with a section per workflow, plus notes on anything incomplete and clear errors on anything that failed. Cancelling still exports what was captured so far. Only workflows on the currently loaded list page are included. HubSpot’s “select all results” across pages isn’t supported, so load the next page and repeat for more.

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Workflow Docs and the Howly app

Workflow Docs documents a workflow. The Howly app shows you how your workflows fit together.
  • Workflow Docs is the free, standalone extension. It turns a single workflow, or a batch, into clean Markdown for sharing, SOPs, and handoffs. No account needed.
  • Howly maps every workflow in a portal, finds the broken, stale, and duplicate ones, estimates credit usage, and gives you an audit you can hand a client. See Ask Howly and the workflow map.
Use the extension when you need a clean write-up of a workflow. Use Howly when you need to understand, clean up, or audit the whole portal.