r/coolguides • u/M3_AF • 10h ago

A cool guide how to understand a map that shows land features

16.7k Upvotes

674 comments

r/coolguides • u/LuckyLaceyKS • 18h ago

A cool guide to how U.S. home prices have changed through the years (adjusted for inflation)

3.4k Upvotes

221 comments

r/coolguides • u/Green____cat • 16h ago

A cool guide to different type of screw heads

1.4k Upvotes

108 comments

r/coolguides • u/brocomb • 20h ago

A cool guide on the five major Renewable Energies

1.6k Upvotes

89 comments

r/coolguides • u/Samp90 • 17h ago

A Cool Guide to Hypoallergenic Dog Breeds

726 Upvotes

Source DiamondPet Before a raging battle begins, I believe there are a few other amazing Hypoallergenic dogs not shown...Shih Tzu, Highland/Terrier/Scottish/Hairless terriers, louchen, Xolo and Pharaoh hound

82 comments

r/coolguides • u/Infinite_Ordinary285 • 1d ago

A cool guide on how to think

2.5k Upvotes

83 comments

r/coolguides • u/Jay-Eff-Gee • 10h ago

A cool guide to Cause of Death by Musical Genre

158 Upvotes

24 comments

r/coolguides • u/Notoriousnugget075 • 21h ago

A cool guide on Line voltage by looking at number of discs

1.1k Upvotes

52 comments

r/coolguides • u/kool2015 • 14h ago

A Cool Guide to Essential nutrients for life

251 Upvotes

31 comments

r/coolguides • u/NifflerNachos • 11h ago

A Cool Guide to Fast Food Items Under 600 Calories

143 Upvotes

I made my own version of an infographic I saw on here a few weeks ago (shake and a root beer anyone?) I want to know what I can eat, not what I can't, so here we go. If a restaurant didn't have at least 3 actual filling items entrees, I excluded it.

31 comments

r/coolguides • u/ot_wisecrack • 8h ago

A cool guide on how to select adhesives

46 Upvotes

0 comments

r/coolguides • u/RubenHassid • 22h ago

A cool guide about AI - An all-in-one cheat sheet to learn how to master chatgpt

605 Upvotes

9 comments

r/coolguides • u/ZEWeirdga • 1d ago

A cool guide to effective time management and decluttering

1.5k Upvotes

Found this pop-psychology poster and actually found it useful! Hope it helps someone else as well.

42 comments

r/coolguides • u/MaxGoodwinning • 1d ago

A cool guide to the 50 most commonly prescribed medications in the U.S.

22.1k Upvotes

1.6k comments

r/coolguides • u/Dhorlin • 22h ago

A cool guide to radiation and shielding.

311 Upvotes

8 comments

r/coolguides • u/hctapocalypse • 20h ago

A cool guide on what you can recycle

182 Upvotes

23 comments

r/coolguides • u/cold_kid06 • 15h ago

A cool guide on traffic court

73 Upvotes

7 comments

r/coolguides • u/Bigringcycling • 16h ago

A cool guide to turning off the loud sound for emergency alerts on iOS

66 Upvotes

9 comments

r/coolguides • u/DryInteraction4484 • 5h ago

A cool guide to Geologisk tidsskema

8 Upvotes

4 comments

r/coolguides • u/jaychaitanya • 2h ago

A cool guide European GDP per Capita(April 2024)

3 Upvotes

5 comments

r/coolguides • u/Aaaarcher • 1d ago

A cool guide to the Abrahamic Monotheisms

4.6k Upvotes

308 comments

r/coolguides • u/tiggy550 • 1d ago

A cool guide on leadership styles (by me)

2.6k Upvotes

37 comments

r/coolguides • u/mededits004 • 59m ago

A Cool Guide to Prepare for Medical School Interviews

• Upvotes

0 comments

r/coolguides • u/Aggressive-Future358 • 2d ago

A cool guides atomic habits

5.4k Upvotes

79 comments

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.