Inspiration

Inspiration has two parts in the sidebar: Browse, for searching competitor and reference pages Spar has indexed, and Captures, for regions you've saved from any site with the Spar Chrome extension.

Browse

Browse lets you see how other sites handle the problem you're working on. Type what you're after into Describe what you're looking for (for example "size guide on product page" or "free shipping progress bar") and click Search. When the results cover several page types, tabs above the grid let you narrow to one.

If nothing matches closely, Spar says No exact matches found and shows related pages instead, which can turn up a useful pattern you didn't think to search for.

Click a result to open it full size, then move through the rest with the previous and next arrows or your keyboard's left and right arrow keys.

Browse only searches sites you've added. Add up to 10 competitor or inspiration websites under Settings > Inspiration and index them there. Until you do, Browse shows No inspiration pages indexed yet. The how-to Add inspiration walks through it.

Captures

Captures holds what you've saved with Spar Inspiration Capture for Chrome. If you haven't installed the extension yet, this page shows a card with an Add to Chrome button.

Connect the extension

After installing, click the Spar icon in Chrome's toolbar and choose Connect Spar account. Spar opens a page asking you to approve the connection; once you do, the extension is ready.

Capture a region

1. On any page you like, open the extension and choose Capture inspiration. If you have more than one Spar site, pick the one you're capturing for.
2. Click the part of the page you want to keep.
3. In Review capture, optionally add a note under Why are you capturing this?, then choose:
   • Save inspiration to keep it in Captures for later.
   • Create test to have Spar build a test from it right away. You can close the tab while it works.

What happens after Create test

Spar works out why the pattern works, adapts it to your brand and content (it doesn't copy the other site's text, products, or styling), and picks the page on your site it fits best. It then creates a test in the Backlog lane of the Board with one generated variation, and sends you a notification when the variation is ready to review.

While it's working, the capture shows its progress in Captures: Queued, Interpreting, Mapping target page, Building, then Ready.

If Spar can't confidently match the pattern to one of your pages, the capture shows Needs input. Open it and pick the target page yourself, and Spar carries on from there.

Saved captures

From Captures you can start Create test on anything you saved earlier, or delete a capture. Deleting a capture also deletes its stored images.

What the extension collects

The extension captures a screenshot of the region you chose, the page structure around it, and the styles needed to understand the layout. Passwords, payment fields, form values, and personal data are stripped before anything leaves the page, and it doesn't read cookies or site storage.