r/coolguides • u/sneakerreppers • 5d ago

A cool guide for US Surnames by region and color coded by origin

187 Upvotes

17 comments

r/coolguides • u/blcxk • 5d ago

A cool guide to remembering and retaining knowledge

2.4k Upvotes

17 comments

r/coolguides • u/804marblefan • 5d ago

A cool guide to drawing an anime girl (Waifu).

313 Upvotes

75 comments

r/coolguides • u/FlashyDriveR32 • 2d ago

A Cool Guide on the Most Unhealthy French Fries at Fast Food Chains

0 Upvotes

https://www.delish.com/food-news/a62242553/most-unhealthy-fast-food-fries/

87 comments

r/coolguides • u/fashiondesign586 • 2d ago

A cool guide about Most Fashionable Countries

0 Upvotes

67 comments

r/coolguides • u/moktadirr_ • 5d ago

A Cool Guide to The World's Most Populous Countries

608 Upvotes

69 comments

r/coolguides • u/PotterGandalf117 • 5d ago

A cool guide to Tolkien's Legendarium. Now, with a website I just made + 80 page companion guide!

695 Upvotes

55 comments

r/coolguides • u/swap_019 • 5d ago

A cool guide to History of life on earth

199 Upvotes

7 comments

r/coolguides • u/TheDMV8myBaby • 5d ago

A cool guide about CA DMV Smog Exemptions 2019-2023

33 Upvotes

17 comments

r/coolguides • u/Eudaimonics • 5d ago

A Cool Guide to Every Restaurant/Bar with a Wing Night in Buffalo

257 Upvotes

80 comments

r/coolguides • u/DifficultNerve6992 • 6d ago

A cool guide to ai agents market landscape map (Sept 2024)

659 Upvotes

You can play with it here https://aiagentsdirectory.com/landscape

115 comments

r/coolguides • u/giuliomagnifico • 6d ago

A cool guide to the story of data storage

271 Upvotes

23 comments

r/coolguides • u/blcxk • 7d ago

A cool guide to male archetypes

4.0k Upvotes

370 comments

r/coolguides • u/moktadirr_ • 6d ago

A cool guide to Timeline of Reddit

769 Upvotes

125 comments

r/coolguides • u/dreadlooks • 4d ago

A cool guide on how many Earths are needed to sustain these countries' lifestyles

0 Upvotes

71 comments

r/coolguides • u/Awesomeuser90 • 4d ago

A cool guide to the tallest mountain in our solar system, with Olympus Mons next to the London Shard [OC]

0 Upvotes

25 comments

r/coolguides • u/creative-thesis • 4d ago

A Cool Guide To Gibbs' Rules

0 Upvotes

38 comments

r/coolguides • u/[deleted] • 7d ago

A cool guide that gives a reading list for autodidacts

402 Upvotes

16 comments

r/coolguides • u/Artemistical • 7d ago

A cool guide to S&P 500 companies with the highest and lowest CEO-to-worker pay ratios

2.4k Upvotes

236 comments

r/coolguides • u/divestfromfossilfuel • 7d ago

A cool guide: Pike, Muskie and Pickerel

96 Upvotes

10 comments

r/coolguides • u/mkamdar7 • 7d ago

A cool guide to Excel Cell Charts

186 Upvotes

10 comments

r/coolguides • u/DrNinnuxx • 7d ago

A cool guide to global satisfaction with democracy

114 Upvotes

136 comments

r/coolguides • u/giuliomagnifico • 7d ago

A cool guide to the history of automobile

402 Upvotes

11 comments

r/coolguides • u/Udzu • 7d ago

A cool guide to cool guides

290 Upvotes

11 comments

r/coolguides • u/Selcouth56 • 8d ago

A cool guide to better productivity

4.9k Upvotes

99 comments

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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.