Help and Support

Your Account #

Your account can be found here.

From here, you can perform the following actions:

• Set Display Name: Choose a display name that will appear alongside your username.
• Set Personal Website: Link to a personal website or external site that better reflects your background, such as LinkedIn or a YouTube channel.
• Set About You: Write a brief description about yourself, which will be shown on your profile page.
• Set Profile Picture: Set your profile picture.
• Change Email: Change your email and view verification status.
• Change Password: Change your password.
• Delete Your Account: Delete your account, Topics, Guides, and Trackers.

Smees and Learners #

As a user, you can fall into one or both of these categories:

• Smee: Short for Subject Matter Expert, a Smee creates and curates topics and guides designed to help learners and information seekers.
• Learner: A learner seeks to navigate a complex topic or subject through the use of guides created by Smees.

A user's profile can be found under the path u/(username).

Topics #

In addition to a user's profile, found under u/(username), you will find any topics to which a user contributes as a Subject Matter Expert (Smee).

Topics can be thought of as categories of interest. Examples include software engineering, education, mathematics, economics, etc. The scope of a topic can be subjective, so there is no hard rule regarding what they can be.

A user's topics are presented as topic cards. Let's look at this example card on the topic of Software Engineering. Each card contains the following information:

• Name (Software Engineering): The name of the topic as defined by the user.
• Topic Slug (software-engineering): This is the unique identifier for this topic for this user. u/(username)/software-engineering.
  If multiple users have a topic with the same slug, they both contribute to the site-wide topic of t/software-engineering.
• Guides: The number of guides that this user has published under this topic.
• Trackers: The number of users who have created a tracker and are tracking their progress through it.
• Background: A short blurb on the user's background in this topic, detailing what makes them a credible resource to learn from.

All the guides from all Smees with the same topic slug can be found under the path t/(topic-slug).

Guides #

A guide represents a collection of resources, such as articles, products, courses, etc., which pertain to accomplishing a certain goal, such as "Become a Backpacker," "Learn to Code," or "A Guide to Nutrition."

A guide's resources are organized into sections and steps that can contain additional context and insights provided by a Smee. This insight provides direction and clarity to learners seeking to accomplish the goal of a guide.

An example of a guide is SmeeGuide's Starter Guide, which can be found on the home page.

Clicking on a user's topic will display one or more guides authored by that Smee. Each guide is also displayed as a card, seen below.

On each guide card, you can find the following:

• Title (Learn to Code from Scratch): The title of the guide as defined by the user.
• Tags (learn-to-code, career-switching, beginners): Tags can be used to filter and categorize guides within a topic.
• Description (For those looking to switch...): A short description of what a user can expect from following this guide.
• Sections/Steps/Tracking: The number of sections and steps within the guide, and the number of users who have created a tracker and are following this guide.
• User/Topic Slug: The author and topic under which this guide is published. u/(username)/(topic-slug)

Trackers #

Trackers are copies of a guide owned by a user that allow the user to track their individual progress through the guide.

For a complete guide on how to use trackers, see /trackers.