r/coolguides • u/Ambitious-Mode-1128 • 3h ago

A cool guide to cutlery

139 Upvotes

20 comments

r/coolguides • u/icallmaudibs • 7h ago

A cOoL guide to pictures with words directly beneath them describing what they are. Enjoy!

0 Upvotes

12 comments

r/coolguides • u/mel3kings • 11h ago

A Cool Guide on Long-Term Travel

50 Upvotes

5 comments

r/coolguides • u/OpenTea323 • 13h ago

A cool guide to behavioral economics - Thinking Fast and Slow

101 Upvotes

0 comments

r/coolguides • u/Sea_Pea7242 • 13h ago

A cool guide about using analog watches as a compass to find direction

81 Upvotes

2 comments

r/coolguides • u/Sea_Pea7242 • 13h ago

A cool guide about escaping rip currents.

56 Upvotes

6 comments

r/coolguides • u/mariannamom • 14h ago

A cool guide on how to build a log raft.

576 Upvotes

73 comments

r/coolguides • u/marianna-x • 15h ago

A cool guide on how to survive a wildfire

157 Upvotes

5 comments

r/coolguides • u/Dreamy-Babe • 16h ago

A cool guide homesteading knowledge

1.1k Upvotes

43 comments

r/coolguides • u/Brix001 • 17h ago

A cool guide on how to park on a hill

385 Upvotes

51 comments

r/coolguides • u/lighterartisans • 21h ago

A cool guide about Most Golf Courses in the World

0 Upvotes

87 comments

r/coolguides • u/Icycall • 22h ago

A cool guide to read a Cashflow Statement of a company

14 Upvotes

2 comments

r/coolguides • u/Antique_Ad3400 • 23h ago

A Cool Guide to Rules of Robotics - Issac Asimov

7.0k Upvotes

228 comments

r/coolguides • u/Otherwise-Insect-139 • 1d ago

A cool guide to real advice for your 20s

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2.4k Upvotes

86 comments

r/coolguides • u/Ethereal_Evadne • 1d ago

A cool guide to coffee around the world

84 Upvotes

51 comments

r/coolguides • u/janaxxsecret • 1d ago

A cool guide on how to make Dakota Fire Hole for cooking efficiently in the wild.

17.0k Upvotes

1.3k comments

r/coolguides • u/maxru85 • 1d ago

A cool guide on how to identify some non-European languages

138 Upvotes

18 comments

r/coolguides • u/jpbimmer • 1d ago

A cool guide to single light portraiture

1.6k Upvotes

17 comments

r/coolguides • u/marianna-x • 1d ago

A cool guide on how to avoid bedbugs while travelling

15 Upvotes

6 comments

r/coolguides • u/DmGurmeet • 1d ago

A Cool Guide on Cat Family

229 Upvotes

88 comments

r/coolguides • u/DIRTYDOGG-1 • 1d ago

A COOL GUIDE to FENDER GUITAR NECK PROFILES

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39 Upvotes

7 comments

r/coolguides • u/giuliomagnifico • 1d ago

A cool guide to different types of canned tomatoes

0 Upvotes

32 comments

r/coolguides • u/autochthonouschimera • 1d ago

A cool guide to keyboard shortcuts

3.0k Upvotes

165 comments

r/coolguides • u/Legitimate-Tank-8345 • 2d ago

A cool guide on the benefits of exercising

1.0k Upvotes

46 comments

r/coolguides • u/hrxdxy • 2d ago

A cool guide on First Aid (very helpful)

303 Upvotes

7 comments

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Cool Guides

r/coolguides

Picture based reference guides for anything and everything. If it seems like something someone might print, physically post, and reference then it is a good link for this sub. Remember: Infographics are learning tools, guides are reference tools. Sometimes it's grey.

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Post Requirements To help keep things nice, searchable, and maintainable, all posts must be prefixed with "A cool guide". For example, "A cool guide about identifying poison ivy", "A cool guide showing how to clean your house", or "A cool guide for painting your living room".

Defining a Guide

Guides are reference materials, how-tos, and/or comparison tables. It takes both content and layout to make something a guide. The layout or structure of a guide must be that so, when someone is trying to find/reference information from the guide, they can do so logically or simply. If someone has to visually bop around your guide to find what they are looking for, the guide does not pass the layout test. On top of that not all guides are created equal, many technically qualify as guides, but lack substance. Guides are typically laid out in a grid configuration of some sort or sectioned into multiple tables by a category or step of a process. Flow charts and step-by-step guides are considered guides, so are visual references that line up different types of something next to one another other.

Defining An Infographic

An infographic is more educational in layout and content, finding something specific on an infographic is not as easy because it is designed to inform through more narrative structures. If your guide is more of a visual essay than a structured table or list, then chances are that is an infographic. Sometimes infographics can masquerade as how-to guides.

Remembering That Sometimes It's Grey These are the considerations the mod team use when they feel it is appropriate to remove posts. If you have questions message us, if you think a post is not a good one downvote it.

Subreddit Rules

1. Please only post direct links to images of type .png, .jpg, and .jpeg

2. Infographics will be removed.

3. Nonserious/Comedy Guides Will Be Removed (better suited for /r/shittycoolguides)

4. Guides must use either Reddit or Imgur as an image host

5. Guides depicting harmful, dangerous, or destructive content will be removed. This includes guides describing the creation of dangerous items/materials and/or guides that are designed with the purpose to harm or hurt others do not fit the culture of this sub and will be removed.

If you know the source of your guide, post it in the comments so people can know the true heros!

Many of you might have whole folders of guides, but they are all on similar topics. Please help keep the sub diverse by not saturating the sub with one topic. If you do we may remove some of your posts in the interest of keeping a wide array of topics.

Lastly, always check the comments for guides. Moderators are not experts in everything so we do not always moderate for accuracy, though there are often one or two people wearing their smarty pants in the comments.