How do you give updates when you’re 10 hours ahead and your clients are asleep while you’re working — and only waking up when you’re done for the day? Instead of burning evenings in marathon video calls, I started recording short explainer videos. I scribble things out in GoodNotes or walk through a screen recording in Screenflow, keep it to 2–3 minutes, done.
I always thought this was a pretty solid service. I genuinely put effort into making these clear — I even think ahead about what follow-up questions might come up. And yet. It happens way too often: two days later we’re on a video call and I ask, “Did you watch the video? I explained everything in there.” Nope. Haven’t watched it. Three minutes? No time for that.
Sometimes you wonder. Why bother?
But I won’t give up, because ultimately we all save time when we communicate (and brief) properly. Which is probably why I like Vimeo’s new Chrome extension — record a quick video right in the browser, it uploads automatically, and you can share the link straight away. Speeds up the whole workflow enormously. Only downside: the audio and video compression is pretty heavy.
I made a video explaining the workflow. But at four minutes, it’s probably too long.
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