🎥 Epic | Guide Video Series – "Hand Held Tutorials"

[isaaclombardssw]

Pain 🩸

What's the new user learning path when wanting to understand Tina? Short answer – there isn't one.

You can dredge through the docs, or try and understand the structure based on a starter.

But... the starters also require knowledge of Next.js (even the barebones starter), react, and graphQL to be meaningful.

That's asking a lot from people.

We really need a video or short, professional series on how to use the tool and set up a basic site OR of adding it to a pre-existing site (recommended option).

Quote from Cook –

"Trying to find the appropriate learning channel in the docs is hard. There’s no clear distinction between setting up a brand new site using NextJS or trying to incorporate Tina into an existing site. This might be due to my lack of experience with NextJS, but the whole journey seems very confusing… At this point I am pretty close to throwing Tina in the fuck-it-bucket, but I decide to go back to square one and read through a bunch of documentation to see what I’m missing."

and

"Tina would really benefit from a 30-45min “dummy’s guide to…” video that walks through all the bits from the ground up."

Tasks 💼

• Plan out included content – run plan by another Tina dev.
  (make sure to include an explanation of how to enter edit mode, what the console "Tina Dev Server is running" links mean, using ItemProps to change list labels.

• Create one or two video "Dummy's Guide" for TinaCMS.
  ... TODO (with Landon).

[isaaclombardssw]

Can do a "podcast" style Q&A 2-man video series for many of these.

Or implementing things in some "mock" context (docs?).