r/coolguides • u/hans99hans • 2h ago

A cool guide showing the relationship between preachers, DJs, and bank robbers

4.4k Upvotes

Sorry i pissed off so many people here. Clearly I waded into a community where I don’t get the vibe.

69 comments

r/coolguides • u/CoffeeAtTheDesk • 1d ago

A cool guide to efficiently packing a suitcase

159 Upvotes

3 comments

r/coolguides • u/gettin • 1d ago

A Cool Guide detailing all of the US Airline mergers from 1970-2020

2.1k Upvotes

151 comments

r/coolguides • u/Training-Violinist83 • 26m ago

A cool guide is what this is not

• Upvotes

A list is not a guide. A meme is not a guide.
Mods why don’t you do something about the shitposts on here? 🕶️

6 comments

r/coolguides • u/Secure-Protection5 • 2d ago

A cool guide 52 MS Word Shortcuts (PC)

46 Upvotes

4 comments

r/coolguides • u/mike_does_stuffs • 1d ago

A cool guide about online safety tips for kids

20 Upvotes

1 comment

r/coolguides • u/MiaNook • 2d ago

A cool guide of Twin Peaks season 2 episodes

654 Upvotes

35 comments

r/coolguides • u/Ordinary-Tear-4195 • 4d ago

A cool guide of 100 Horror Movies

5.4k Upvotes

337 comments

r/coolguides • u/pixel_tinkerer • 2d ago

A Cool Guide to What Happens to Your Body After You Stop Drinking

0 Upvotes

17 comments

r/coolguides • u/Ordinary-Tear-4195 • 4d ago

A cool guide of 120 Horror Movies Ver 2.

259 Upvotes

41 comments

r/coolguides • u/growthminded_khey • 4d ago

A cool guide to 100 documentaries for kids ages 5-10, curated by Big Life Journal

501 Upvotes

Big Life Journal put this together to make screen time actually go somewhere, covers nature, science, animals, space, and history so there's something for whatever a kid is curious about that week.

22 comments

r/coolguides • u/gettin • 2d ago

A Cool Guide to Movies with the largest disparity when ranked by men and women

0 Upvotes

54 comments

r/coolguides • u/sr_local • 4d ago

A cool guide to wireless antennas

157 Upvotes

11 comments

r/coolguides • u/Zarykata • 5d ago

A cool guide about 10 (out of 12) species of Wobbegong shark!

221 Upvotes

10 comments

r/coolguides • u/TuggyMyBeefy • 5d ago

A cool guide to drug interactions that everybody should have

863 Upvotes

159 comments

r/coolguides • u/sr_local • 6d ago

A cool guide to visualize how the U.S. car colors have faded from 1996 to 2025

21.7k Upvotes

988 comments

r/coolguides • u/CoffeeTeaJournal • 5d ago

A cool guide to the aromatic chemistry of traditional coffee spices (Cardamom vs. Mastic)

52 Upvotes

10 comments

r/coolguides • u/CoffeeTeaJournal • 7d ago

A cool guide to tea brewing temperatures (and the exact chemistry of why boiling water ruins green tea

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303 Upvotes

11 comments

r/coolguides • u/mattnotsosmall • 8d ago

A cool guide to who actually owns Australian "local" beers

5.0k Upvotes

723 comments

r/coolguides • u/OldFisherman-78 • 6d ago

A cool guide about social media and kids

12 Upvotes

2 comments

r/coolguides • u/ChargeOnly8549 • 7d ago

A cool guide about productivity

145 Upvotes

4 comments

r/coolguides • u/sr_local • 8d ago

A cool guide to the process that transforms olives into oil

634 Upvotes

26 comments

r/coolguides • u/sr_local • 8d ago

A cool guide to various magnetic tape cartridges and cassettes that have been on the market

235 Upvotes

14 comments

r/coolguides • u/NavalProgrammer • 6d ago

A cool guide on the ten primates of Canada. You've seen these in your neighbourhood!

0 Upvotes

30 comments

r/coolguides • u/Low-Violinist7259 • 8d ago

A cool guide to conducting a local political campaign in the US (1938)

95 Upvotes

1 comment

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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.