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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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. The target is circled. An orange outline and the step number mark exactly what to tap, so you never have to hunt.
  4. 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.