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by al_borland 36 days ago
I was trying to do something in Apple Shortcuts and tried searching the web for documentation, as I usually do. I came up empty and was very frustrated. AI also seemed of little help due to the lack of accessible web documentation to train on.

Then, almost out of desperation, I went to the Help menu and find pretty rich documentation. Having this documentation built into the app used to be the norm, but I think most users aren’t in the habit of looking there.

While this doesn’t solve all of Apple’s documentation problems, I figured it’s worth mentioning for anyone who may have been ignoring the Help menu with the idea that everything is online.

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Good point - the Mac User Guide is also accessible from the Finder's Help menu.

Though I think there should be an option to download the whole thing locally so that it could work offline.