Category: HappyRec

Recording is not always faster. A short test for deciding which one the situation needs, and the cases where a video is the wrong answer.

Nine things to check in the two minutes between stopping the recording and sending it. Most of them you cannot fix afterwards.

Open-plan offices, home desks and family in the background. The practical settings for recording when you are not alone, and what to check before you hit record.

Why the forty-minute induction video goes unwatched, and the format that does not. Length, naming and the one question to answer in the first ten seconds.

The two weeks before a resignation takes effect are the cheapest knowledge transfer you will ever get. What to record, in what order, and what a written handover always misses.

The hardware handover is organised and the knowledge handover is not. Four recordings of fifteen minutes, named for the task, with the why said out loud and no credentials in frame.

Voice for reasoning, caveats and bad news. Text for decisions, lists and anything searchable. Ninety seconds, one thought, subject first — and when to add the screen.

Usually the answer is not ‘do not record’. Choose the smallest capture area, know what arrives uninvited, decide real or made-up data first, and do a five-second test.

The polished version is usually worse. One sentence of intent, three beats, three minutes, real-looking data, one take — and two minutes of cleaning the desktop first.

A thirty-second recording replaces six messages across two days. What to capture, what to say out loud, what will be in frame, and why the console belongs in it.