Practical beginner guides.

Move It to a Channel

A Small Team's Guide to Getting Work Out of Email and Into Slack

Run Your Books on QuickBooks Online

A Monthly System for Small-Business Owners Who Do Their Own Books

Know Your Traffic with Google Analytics 4

What Your Website Is Actually Telling You

Track It Once with Google Tag Manager

Define Your Tracking Once and Send It Everywhere

Build Your Email List with Mailchimp

The Audience You Own, From First Signup to First Campaign

Your First Year on YouTube

From Empty Channel to Your First Monetized Videos

Looker Studio for Beginners

Turn Your Data Into Dashboards Anyone Can Read

Build It in Workspace Studio

Automate Your Workday Inside Google Workspace

Delegate It to an AI Agent

Putting AI to Work in a Small Business, Safely

Your Booking Page

How Small Businesses Let Customers Schedule Themselves

Send a Video, Skip the Meeting

A Practical Guide to Async Screen Video at Work

Talk, Don't Type

A Beginner's Guide to Writing by Voice with Wispr Flow

Remember Every Customer

A Small Business Guide to the HubSpot CRM

Build and Ship Apps with Replit

A Beginner's Guide to Building and Deploying Real Web Apps with AI, No Coding Background Needed

Bookkeeping with Wave

A Beginner's Guide to Keeping Your Small-Business Books in Order

Krita for Beginners

A Practical Guide to Digital Painting from Your First Brushstroke

Getting Started with SEO

A Beginner's Guide to Being Found in Search, Honestly

Make Images with Flux

A Beginner's Guide to Sharp, Prompt-Faithful AI Images

Make Images with Nano Banana

Generate and Edit Images by Describing What You Want

Plan and Schedule Your Social Media

A Calm System for Consistent Posting Without the Burnout

Webflow for Beginners

Design and Launch a Real Website Without Writing Code

Build Your Online Course

Design, Record, and Sell a Course People Finish

Getting Started with Blender

A Beginner's Guide to 3D Modeling, Lighting, and Rendering

Start Your First Podcast

Plan, Record, Edit, and Launch a Show People Actually Listen To

AI Video with Google Veo

A Beginner's Guide to Cinematic Clips with Generated Sound

Build Your First App with Bubble

A Beginner's Guide to Building Real Web Apps Without Writing Code

Ship an App with Lovable

Build and Launch a Real Web App by Describing It, No Coding Required

Making Videos with Kling

A Beginner's Guide to Believable AI Motion and Camera Work

Luma Dream Machine for Beginners

Turn Text and Images into Short Video Clips, Fast

Making Video with Sora

A Beginner's Guide to Coherent Scenes and Short AI Stories

Pika for Beginners

Make Fun, Shareable AI Video Clips and Effects the Easy Way

Prompt Engineering, From Prompts to Loops

A Beginner's Guide to Writing Prompts and Building Reliable AI Workflows

Photo Editing with Affinity

A Beginner's Guide to the Free Affinity App, Formerly Affinity Photo — From First Import to Finished Image

Design with Ideogram

Make Images That Get the Text Right

Write Your Novel with Sudowrite

AI-Assisted Drafting for Fiction Writers

Stable Diffusion on Your Own Machine

A Practical Guide to Local Image Generation

Your First Substack Newsletter

Set Up, Write, and Grow a Paid Newsletter

Make Songs with Udio

Turn a Text Prompt Into a Finished Track

Make Images with Adobe Firefly

A Practical Guide to Generative AI Inside Creative Cloud

Video Without a Camera

Turn Plain Scripts Into Professional Videos With Synthesia's AI Avatars

Put Notion AI to Work

A Practical Guide to Writing, Summarizing, and Automating Inside Notion

Record and Edit Audio with Audacity

A Practical Guide to Recording, Cleaning, and Producing Clear Audio with Open-Source Software

Facebook & Instagram Ads for Small Business

A Beginner's Step-by-Step Guide to Planning, Launching, and Optimizing Social Ads

Run Your Projects on Trello

A Simple System of Boards, Lists, and Cards to Organize Any Project or Team

ClickUp for Beginners

Set Up Your Workspace, Manage Tasks, and Get More Done Without the Overwhelm

The Everyday Guide to Microsoft Copilot

A Plain, Practical Path to Using AI in Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, and Windows

Vector Design with Inkscape

A Beginner's Guide to Logos, Icons, and Scalable Graphics

Photo Editing with GIMP

A Beginner's Guide to Editing, Retouching, and Making Graphics

Getting Started with Figma

A Beginner's Guide to UI/UX Design, Wireframes, and Prototypes

Self-Hosted Smart Home

A Beginner's Guide to Private Automation with Home Assistant

Framer Made Simple

Design and Publish a Professional Website Without Code

The Everyday Guide to Grok

A Beginner's Guide to xAI's AI Assistant and Real-Time Answers on X

Make Images with Leonardo AI

A Step-by-Step Guide to Studio-Quality Art from a Few Words

Stripe for Small Business

Accept Online Payments Without a Developer

Runway AI Video for Beginners

Create AI Video Clips from a Text Prompt

Run Your Business on Google Sheets

Track Money, Customers, and Inventory Without Excel

AI Meeting Notes for Beginners

Let AI Capture, Summarize, and Surface Action Items — So You Can Actually Pay Attention

AI App Builders for Non-Coders

Build Working Web Apps by Describing Them in Plain English — Your Fast-Start Guide

LM Studio for Beginners

Run Private AI Models on Your Own Computer — No Cloud, No Code, No Subscription

DaVinci Resolve for Beginners

Edit, Color, and Export Professional Video With Free Software — From First Import to Finished File

Midjourney for Beginners

Turn Plain Words Into Stunning Images — Your Fast-Start Guide to AI Prompting

Descript for Beginners

Edit Video and Podcasts by Editing Text — Your Fast-Start Guide

Make.com for Beginners

Build No-Code Automations That Save Hours Every Week—Without Writing a Single Line of Code

OBS Studio for Beginners

Record, Stream, and Look Professional With Free Software

Bookkeeping for Side Hustles

Track Income, Cut Your Tax Bill, and Keep Clean Books Without an Accountant

Suno AI for Beginners

How to Create, Customize, and Publish AI-Generated Music with Zero Experience

Gamma AI for Beginners

Create Stunning Presentations, Docs, and Websites in Minutes—No Design Skills Needed

HeyGen AI Avatar Video for Beginners

Create Professional AI-Powered Videos Without a Camera, Studio, or Tech Background

ElevenLabs AI Voice for Beginners

Clone Voices, Generate Speech, and Build Audio Projects Without Prior Experience

Perplexity for Beginners

Search, Research, and Get Real Answers With AI

MCP for Beginners

Connect Claude and AI to the Tools and Files You Already Use

Airtable for Beginners

Turn Your Messy Spreadsheets Into a Real System

Zapier for Beginners

Connect Your Apps and Automate the Busywork

Canva for Small Business Owners

Design Your Own Marketing Without Hiring a Designer

Square for Small Business Owners

Take Card Payments and Run Your Counter Without the Monthly Bill

NotebookLM for Beginners

Turn Your Own Documents Into an AI You Can Actually Trust

Google Gemini for Beginners

Get Real Work Out of the AI Already Built Into Your Google Account

Cursor AI for Non-Programmers

Build Real Apps and Automate Your Work Without Writing a Single Line of Code

ChatGPT for Beginners

A Plain-English Guide to Getting Real Results with AI in Hours, Not Weeks

Ollama for Beginners

Run a Real LLM on Your Own Machine in an Afternoon

CapCut for Beginners

Edit Short-Form Video with Confidence, From Your First Cut to a Finished Post

Google Business Profile for Local Businesses

Set Up, Optimize, and Maintain the Free Google Listing That Brings Customers to Your Door

Obsidian for Beginners

Build a Working Second Brain in Your First Weekend

Notion for Solopreneurs

A Practical Setup for Running a One-Person Business in One Workspace

Set Up Shop

A Creator's Guide to Etsy, Gumroad, Lemon Squeezy, and Whop

n8n for Beginners: Automate Without Code

Build real workflows that save hours each week — no programming required

Bookkeeping for Freelancers and the Self-Employed

A Simple Monthly System for 1099 Income, Expenses, and Quarterly Taxes

Excel for the One-Person Business

A Practical Spreadsheet System for Owners Who Do Their Own Books

The Modern Agent's AI Playbook

From Lead Gen to Closing Without Burning Out

Your First Sourdough Loaf

The Beginner's Failure-Proof Guide — Including a Full Troubleshooting Appendix

Automated Money

The Beginner's System for People Who've Tried Budgeting Before

The Claude Power-User Handbook

Prompts, Skills, and Subagents That Actually Compound

Claude Code: From Zero to Shipping

The Terminal-Native Way to Build with Claude

Setting Up Claude the Right Way

From First Login to Your First Side Project

Claude AI Guide for Beginners

Hands-On Projects to Write, Research, Code, and Automate with Claude