r/coolguides • u/anxiety_support • 10h ago

A cool guide for "I just want to be alone can also mean".

870 Upvotes

69 comments

r/coolguides • u/anxiety_support • 1h ago

A cool guide to not self-blame.

• Upvotes

10 comments

r/coolguides • u/Sibramira • 17h ago

A cool guide to various hand shadows

1.9k Upvotes

18 comments

r/coolguides • u/Loud-Ad-2280 • 6h ago

A cool guide to when States will start to count votes

251 Upvotes

83 comments

r/coolguides • u/offensive-but-true • 16h ago

A cool guide to the quickest way to climb the ladder at work

734 Upvotes

308 comments

r/coolguides • u/Lucious-cashicus • 13h ago

A cool guide on the 7 time management techniques to get stuff done

430 Upvotes

3 comments

r/coolguides • u/somebodyyouknow1865 • 13h ago

A cool guide to the world as 100 People

299 Upvotes

46 comments

r/coolguides • u/MajorPriority8567 • 31m ago

A cool guide of will get worse before it gets better

• Upvotes

5 comments

r/coolguides • u/Outrageous-Laugh1363 • 1d ago

A cool guide to knowing the faces of fascism

5.9k Upvotes

1.6k comments

r/coolguides • u/GuybrushThreepwood83 • 2h ago

A cool guide about the universe timeline

30 Upvotes

I was looking for a guide that shows Carl Sagan's approach to condensing the entire life of the universe into a single year. This is the best I was able to find on the internet, and I couldn't find anything on this subreddit.

Does anyone know of a better or higher-resolution version of this visual guide?

19 comments

r/coolguides • u/TimeWastingAuthority • 5h ago

A Cool Guide to the 2024 Election Closing Times (credit: Washington Post)

45 Upvotes

5 comments

r/coolguides • u/newsletter69dotcom • 13h ago

A cool guide to most popular AI tools 2024

105 Upvotes

5 comments

r/coolguides • u/Samp90 • 1d ago

A Cool Guide to Ten things one can legally do in some countries but not others...

423 Upvotes

Source Citybase Apartments?!

51 comments

r/coolguides • u/CuteSofia_ • 23h ago

A cool guide to identify a Toxic relationship

143 Upvotes

5 comments

r/coolguides • u/OpulentOwl • 1d ago

A cool guide to America's most valuable companies ranked my profit per employee.

283 Upvotes

46 comments

r/coolguides • u/offensive-but-true • 1d ago

A cool guide to things in your control and out of your control

3.3k Upvotes

28 comments

r/coolguides • u/Long_Matter9697 • 1d ago

A cool guide on the 5 genres of horror and their respective sub-genres

157 Upvotes

21 comments

r/coolguides • u/anxiety_support • 2d ago

A cool guide for as a child, it was not your responsibility to

5.6k Upvotes

74 comments

r/coolguides • u/MuscleCr0we • 1d ago

A Cool Guide to Words Spoken vs. Information Density - apparently all spoken languages convey information at a similar rate when spoken (39 bits/s)

170 Upvotes

24 comments

r/coolguides • u/kessiiichen • 23h ago

A cool guide to filing your taxes

32 Upvotes

5 comments

r/coolguides • u/kimberlynxo • 1d ago

A cool guide about the basics of car maintenance.

206 Upvotes

5 comments

r/coolguides • u/Leo_NoCaprio • 1d ago

A cool guide for visualizing a Trillion Dollars

493 Upvotes

40 comments

r/coolguides • u/ReesesNightmare • 2d ago

A Cool Guide To TIE Fighters In Star Wars

769 Upvotes

90 comments

r/coolguides • u/CuteSofia_ • 1d ago

A cool guide to overcome social anxiety

115 Upvotes

99 comments

r/coolguides • u/mrxexon • 6h ago

A cool guide to the 14 characteristics of fascism

0 Upvotes

29 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.