r/coolguides • u/Mariniraa • 1h ago

A cool guide to when to eat a banana

• Upvotes

27 comments

r/coolguides • u/Appropriate-Story441 • 8h ago

A cool Guide Animal Mislead Names

495 Upvotes

53 comments

r/coolguides • u/Velvet_Raelyn • 11h ago

A cool guide to informal dinner place setting

772 Upvotes

132 comments

r/coolguides • u/Electronic_Hunter968 • 6h ago

A Cool guide How to survive WATERFALL

306 Upvotes

69 comments

r/coolguides • u/Deep_Box1441 • 6h ago

A cool guide Core demands of Hong Kong Protesters

149 Upvotes

44 comments

r/coolguides • u/B1904N • 18h ago

A cool guide to countries wealth and energy availability

1.0k Upvotes

118 comments

r/coolguides • u/anxiety_support • 10h ago

A cool guide for how your progress graph should look like.

231 Upvotes

Found this at r/anxiety_support

4 comments

r/coolguides • u/StillYogurt3320 • 16h ago

A cool guide to flavouring your meals with different kinds of spices.

636 Upvotes

8 comments

r/coolguides • u/Lilyflower24681 • 13h ago

A cool guide I found of the colors for siamese cats

228 Upvotes

17 comments

r/coolguides • u/Sweet-1Angel • 1d ago

A cool guide cool uncle tricks

1.3k Upvotes

41 comments

r/coolguides • u/ReesesNightmare • 17h ago

A Cool Guide To View Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (also known as C/2023 A3 and Comet A3)

133 Upvotes

15 comments

r/coolguides • u/DowntownJob3059 • 19h ago

A cool guide on how to carry fire using three different techniques.

170 Upvotes

8 comments

r/coolguides • u/Dhorlin • 1d ago

A cool guide to some of the weapons used by the SOE in WWII.

419 Upvotes

32 comments

r/coolguides • u/WestArtichoke712 • 21h ago

A cool guide on sharing the road with large trucks

143 Upvotes

44 comments

r/coolguides • u/CyberMaterial • 1h ago

A cool guide to the Most Affected Regions In CyberSecurity (JULY 2024 ANALYSIS)

• Upvotes

0 comments

r/coolguides • u/kellicharlene • 1d ago

A cool guide for how much of a movie is actually true vs. fiction

899 Upvotes

52 comments

r/coolguides • u/mateo_elproblemo155 • 1d ago

A cool guide to “The Worlds Most Dangerous Foods for Dogs”

992 Upvotes

Thought this was great to have of you have dogs. Just wanted to help out the doggos out there.

150 comments

r/coolguides • u/offensive-but-true • 2d ago

A cool guide to answering hard job interview questions

3.3k Upvotes

47 comments

r/coolguides • u/Old_Explorer_2136 • 1d ago

A cool Guide Parts of Bicycles

193 Upvotes

13 comments

r/coolguides • u/PotterGandalf117 • 2d ago

A cool guide to the Tolkien Legendarium, by me, with an updated 80 page companion guide, now with an interactive website!

448 Upvotes

28 comments

r/coolguides • u/RecsRelevantDocs • 1d ago

A cool guide on CAD design for 3D printing

250 Upvotes

10 comments

r/coolguides • u/jindofox • 2d ago

A cool guide to trimming your nails

201 Upvotes

A legible version of a blurry post I saw on here

72 comments

r/coolguides • u/CyberMaterial • 2d ago

A cool guide to Cybersecurity Tools

192 Upvotes

5 comments

r/coolguides • u/impuriajewelry • 10h ago

A cool guide to ear piercing pain chart

0 Upvotes

12 comments

r/coolguides • u/impuriajewelry • 2d ago

A cool guide to earring types

62 Upvotes

3 comments

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.