How We Turn a Video into an Article
Every tutorial on this site starts as a screen recording made on the real device. The written version is not a transcript — it is rebuilt from the recording, step by step.
From recording to steps
- Actions become steps. Each meaningful action in the video (open an app, tap a menu, flip a switch) becomes one numbered step. Scrolling and waiting are not steps.
- One screenshot per step. The screenshot is the frame where the interface is stable and the element you are about to tap is visible — never a mid-animation or loading frame.
- The target is circled. An orange outline and the step number mark exactly what to tap, so you never have to hunt.
- The result is shown, not described. The last step always shows the screen that proves it worked.
What the article adds that the video can’t
- A “Tested on” box — exact device, system and app version, and the date the steps were last verified.
- Prerequisites and gotchas before the steps, not buried at the end of a video.
- Troubleshooting — what to do when a menu is missing or a call still gets through.
- The same task on other devices — linked both ways, because menu names genuinely differ between brands.
Why both?
Video is best for watching once. Text is best for doing it yourself: searchable, scannable, translatable, and every step stays on screen while you tap through it on your own phone.