System and method for automatic segmentation of digital guidance content

A non-transitory computing device readable medium having instructions stored thereon for providing digital guidance in an underlying computer application, wherein the instructions are executable by a processor to cause a computing device to:

• collect a plurality of rules from a content author to be used for automatically segmenting the digital guidance content, each of the plurality of rules having a plurality of options from which the content author selects;
• after collecting the plurality of rules from the content author, record steps of digital guidance content as the steps are created by the content author;
• automatically segment the digital guidance content as it is being created such that the digital guidance content is only associated with segments of the underlying computer application where the content is relevant, wherein the automatically segment step is based at least in part on the options selected by the content author in the rule collect step;
• and
• begin playback of the digital guidance content to an end user only when the end user is in a segment of the underlying computer application that is relevant to the digital guidance content.