Thanks Dartcoin, appreciate you stopping here. You right, most of the time we keep following the phrases that brings the content to other directions.
What's the strategy you used to writing those so-useful guides? How do you plan them?
How do you plan them?
I usually, listen what others are asking online and IRL. If I am in a chat group, I pay attention to what people are asking, what problems they have, what they are looking for as solutions using Bitcoin in their day to day activity.
So I take notes, I use notepad++ because I can convert it easily into a markdown or even html. Just bulk notes, by category.
Then when I have time and I am bored, I come back to my notes and start testing a scenario based on what those people were asking for help. I try to put myself in their situation, with their level of knowledge, infrastructure, and use profile. I have to see what they see, otherwise the scenario tested is useless and will not find the right audience.
During the testing scenario I improve the original notes with the steps I did, to remember what I did, screenshots or schemes if are needed. I also try to find tricks to make it even easier to use that specific app. Sometimes developers do not explain in the documentation too much about their apps, so we need to squeeze everything from them.
Once the notes are ready and get a form of a guide, I format it a bit, insert some images, to make it more colorful and funny. I notice that if I do not insert some images, people tend to not read that guides or just frugal reading.
Chapters are very important too. Because you can link them into a specific discussion and point to the reader the exact position in the guide.
I like to use the bullets because it looks organized and easy to read, when you are trying to list some features or important points. Bullets are easy to remember.
So in general this is my strategy. The writing is exactly how is coming into my mind, I do not select my words very carefully, I don't care too much. I also have a lot of grammatical errors, I know it very well, but that is my "personal signature", I am human writing, not a stupid shatGPT.
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notepad++
Thanks for mentioning Notepad++ another really simple, flexible legendary one I could have add.
Your tricks are like gold! Thanks for sharing
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