What tool are you most comfortable using to learn something?

Cica-Laure Mbappé
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What skills do you want to improve in the next few months? And how do you want to learn?

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Ashley Kolodziej
None of these - I want a problem to solve and a reference to learn the vocabulary I need to Google and get things done. Interactive tutorials are best for me - stuff like the learn panel in Adobe apps these days is great. Or a good set of documentation to get that vocabulary in my head. I need to be able to try things and fail safely, and ideally, have some context about why the right answer is the correct answer. I usually apply this to learning new programming languages, but I think it’d be great with learning foreign languages, and when I was trying to learn to invest, I just threw money at things until I found out paper trading exists.
Jaskiran Kaur
I think Video is the most comfortable way to learn something especially tutorial. I prefer to watch YouTube when I want to learn these. E-Books and Articles are great for the time you need a brief description.
Hannah Wright
I learned adobe premiere to create promo videos for our app all through video tutorials. There is so much available and being able to create quick videos as needed is a really helpful skill when launching a new product.
Cica-Laure Mbappé
@hannah_wright1 that's great ! Nothing is better than videos to learn how to make videos. Thanks for sharing 😉
Artem Khromov
It strongly depends on the subject and context you're in. Personally, I use 50/50 mix of video and articles. BTW, does anyone know a great tool to make video highlights? Or to attach a note to specific time?
Cica-Laure Mbappé
@artkhromov I agree with you. I would go for articles to learn how to take care of my plants, but I'd watch videos to learn something more technical (like sewing).
Natalie Karakina
Article. I can highlight and save smth, with video I have to put extra time for writing
Cica-Laure Mbappé
@nataliekarakina yes indeed! Rewind the video is time consuming.
Olya Zabalkanska
video and articles are my top choice
Marina Korobka
Articles and video. However it gets tougher to find a truly informative and useful articles
Cica-Laure Mbappé
@marina_korobka I agree, there are a lot of click baits with unqualified content or limited content to promote something else...
Marina Korobka
@cica_laure_mbappe indeed! And there are so many articles with irrelevant to my question content(( If I search the article useful features on Etsy, I don't want to read the first half of the article about what is Etsy and its history. It's just an example, but gosh it's annoying((