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How to Easily Create Animated Gifs, Step-by-Step Guides, and Videos
Snagit 2021 tutorial —more than just a screen recorder, screen capture, and a snipping tool
You know that feeling in your gut when you get a loong email with complicated sentences explaining what you should do and where you should find it. This is a kind of email you need to read three times to understand what the person wants from you.
Or that gut feeling when you’ve had a Zoom meeting with several of your co-workers explaining a procedure a couple of times, not once but a couple of times. And still, you get emails and phone calls with questions about the same procedure.
Are you sick of endless phone calls and online meetings where you have to explain the same thing over and over again?
Do you have a feeling you spend more time on meetings than you are writing code?
I know how that feels. FRUSTRATING!
Throwing your computer through the window is out of the question. The problem is not the computer, and no, no need to assume others are stupid or don’t listen.
Here is the problem.
Two-thirds of people understand information better when communicated visually.
We process visuals 60,000 times faster than text
How long does it take you to realize that a curved line with every point equal distance from the center is a circle? Is it not easier just to show?
Still, many people rely mostly on writing long exhausting emails and having long fruitless phone calls.
It’s time to put a stop to it.
There is a solution to the problem.
You can make a how-to guide, animated gif, or a video explaining a topic so coworkers can watch it over and over again without bothering you.
In this article, you’ll learn about Snagit.
