One-minute tutorials, on your own Mac.
Short, hands-on tutorials that each teach one thing Springle can do. Springle talks you through it, and you do it for real as you go.
A tutorial teaches one thing Springle can do, in about a minute. Springle talks you through it in the same voice as the tour, and you do it for real on your own Mac. Each step moves on only once it has really happened: your words typed into a box, a circle drawn on the screen, a note in your notebook.
Take them whenever you like, in any order, as often as you like.
In older versions of Springle, tutorials were called Lessons. A lesson is now something else: ask Springle to teach you about anything, and it draws it and talks you through it. See Lessons.
The nine tutorials
| Tutorial | What you’ll do | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Dictate anywhere | Hold ⌃ control fn and say a reply in the Practice Desk. Then dictate into a box of your own, in any app. You can skip that second part. | 1 min |
| Circle to ask | Press ⌃⌥ C, draw round anything on your screen, and ask about it. | 1 min |
| Guide me or do it | Click where Springle points, watch it write a reply for you, answer Yes or No before it sends, and choose how Springle helps from now on. | 90 s |
| Asks before it buys | Ask Springle to buy something in a practice shop, and see it stop for your yes before it pays. | 1 min |
| Fill a form | Hand over a long practice form, check what Springle filled in, and send it yourself. | 90 s |
| Collect from pages | Ask for the prices on a practice hotel page as a table, then try a page of your own. Needs Springle or Springle Family. | 90 s |
| Go deeper | Ask what a practice article is about, press Go deeper for the fuller answer, and keep it. | 1 min |
| Keep and remind | Open a page, keep a note of it, set a reminder, and find them both in your notebook. | 90 s |
| Mac apps, hands free | Ask for a note in Notes, then find your last PDF, without a click. | 1 min |
In Learn, the tutorials are grouped by what they help with: Write faster, Show Springle what you mean, Hand it over, Web superpowers, Remember and find and Your apps.
The practice shop, form, hotel page and article are pages Springle keeps for this, at springle.app/play. Nothing on them is real: nothing is bought, sent or booked.
Start a tutorial
Any of these opens the tutorials:
- In the notebook, click Learn. Open the notebook with ⌃⌥ N, then ⌘ command 5 goes straight to Learn. Your lessons come first, then Tutorials.
- In the card, click ⋯ and choose Lessons and tutorials.
- In Springle’s menu in the menu bar, choose Help › Tutorials….
- In Settings, How it works lists them too, each with Show me.
Click Start beside a tutorial. A Springle tutorial link, such as springle://lesson/circle-to-ask, starts that tutorial too, and so does Try it in Springle on a help page like this one.
Springle offers them as well. Ask how to do something Springle does, like "how do I dictate?", and a tutorial can appear under the answer with Show me. Click × if you’d rather not.
- 1Learn in the notebook.
- 2Carry on: a tutorial you left, at the step you’d reached.
- 3Tutorials are grouped by what they help with.
- 4A tutorial you’ve finished is marked Learned. Again takes it once more.
Each tutorial shows how long it takes and what you’ll be able to do. One you’ve finished is marked Learned, and its button says Again. If a tutorial needs something first, Learn says what, such as Needs the microphone or Turn on the dictation keys in Settings.
How a tutorial goes
- 1Say it again replays the line. Leave stops the tutorial.
- 2Which tutorial you’re in, and how far along.
- 3What you’ll learn, in one line.
- 4Start, or Not now, and about how long it takes.
- Springle says what you’ll learn. Click Start, or Not now if it isn’t a good moment.
- It tells you what to do. Once it has finished speaking, the card shows the keys to press or the words to say.
- You do it for real. Springle moves on as soon as it has happened. If you hesitate, it gives you a gentle nudge. If something isn’t quite right, it tells you and waits.
- Some steps can be left out. They show Skip this bit.
Beside the notch, Say it again replays what Springle just said, and Leave stops the tutorial.
Dictate anywhere and Guide me or do it use the Practice Desk, Springle’s pretend message window. Nothing in it is a real message, and nothing is ever sent. See The Practice Desk.
Guide me or do it ends by asking how you’d like Springle to help from now on: Auto, Guide me or Do it for me. That choice stays. You can change it later in Settings › General, or with the chip in the card. See Guide me, Auto and Do it for me.
The cheat card
- 1What you can now do.
- 2The keys, what to say and where it works.
- 3Keep the card, More tutorials, or Done.
At the end, a small card sums up what you learned, so you don’t have to remember it all.
- Keep the card puts it in your notebook as a note, so you can look it up later.
- More tutorials opens Learn at the tutorials.
- Done closes the tutorial.
Leave now, carry on later
Click Leave beside the notch at any time. The tutorial stops straight away, and Springle remembers where you were for 7 days. Until then, Learn shows it at the top of the tutorials under Carry on, and it picks up at the step you’d reached.
Good to know
- Tutorials don’t eat into the Free plan. On Free, the first 10 asks you make in each tutorial don’t count against your month. That’s 10 per tutorial in all, however many times you take it. See Plans.
- What you do is real. A note you keep stays in your notebook, and a reminder you set really goes off.
- The recorded voice says "Control and Option" (and "Control and Fn" for dictation). If you changed your keys in Settings › Shortcuts, the keycaps on the card show the keys you chose.
- New to Springle? Start with the tour. The tutorials go further, one thing at a time.
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