You may have also seen their app Mac Family Tree. You may recognize the name of the company – they’re the folks who make Logoist, which I’ve talked about on the show and for which I also did a ScreenCastsOnline tutorial.
The app in question is Screenium from Synium Software at. I made this assumption based on the price, and I couldn’t have been more wrong. Last week I started doing a tutorial on an app that I assumed would be fairly simplistic and easy to fit within the 30-minute window. Sometimes you’re halfway through the process when the developer decides to put out a major update and it messes up everything you’ve done.īut there’s one thing that has never happened to me in this process before now. Often software turns out to be buggy and we definitely have to change horses when that happens. Maybe the app turns out to be too simplistic to be worthy of a 30-40 minute tutorial. One of the huge pitfalls in doing these tutorials, as any of the ScreenCastsOnline staff will tell you, is that partway through working on an app, you discover it isn’t what you thought it was when you decided to do the tutorial. For example, in some apps, the only logical place to start is with the Preferences (like Bartender 4) but with other apps, the Preferences are sort of the bow on top at the end.
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I just fling my discoveries onto the mind map and as I work my way through the app, I start to reorganize the topics into a story of how to use the app.
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I know that I pretend I never read manuals but it’s actually not true I often read the manual for more complex tools.Īs I work my way through learning the app, I create a mind map using my beloved iThoughts from Toketaware. I start by poking every button and control in the app to figure out what it does, and I explore every preference and option. In order to make a tutorial, I have to really understand the tool. There are a lot of pitfalls when choosing a tool to teach. It’s absolutely true that the best way to learn something is to teach it. I enjoy making the tutorials because it forces me learn new tools really well. I’ve been making video tutorials for ScreenCastsOnline for around 5 years.
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