Why organizations choose SelfGuide over PDF

Many organizations use PDF for manuals, but it often fails when it comes to adjustments, version control or ease of searching. That's why more and more organizations are opting for a smarter solution: SelfGuide.

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Honderden organisaties kozen al voor SelfGuide

Quick, hassle-free customization

PDFs are static: each change means creating, saving, and redistributing a new file. With SelfGuide, you simply modify instructions online — changes are immediately visible to everyone. This way, your documentation always stays up to date, without extra work.

Findable, interactive and user-friendly

PDFs quickly disappear into mailboxes or folders, while SelfGuide instructions are always centrally available online. Thanks to a clear structure, mobile-friendly design and interactive elements, users can quickly find what they need. No download required, no version confusion — just clear help at exactly the right time.

Comparison

Creating instructions

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Fast and structured

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PDF

Time-consuming and cumbersome

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Publication and Access

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Immediately available online

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PDF

Manually send or upload

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Interactive instructions

Bij SelfGuide

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PDF

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User Feedback

Bij SelfGuide

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PDF

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Version control

Bij SelfGuide

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PDF

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Don't just take our word for it

“Growing digital skills means more time for our clients, more job satisfaction and lower workload, ready for the future.”

Alexander Dijk
Application Administrator

“Our old user guides were awkward and time-consuming to update. With SelfGuide, we can quickly and easily create step-by-step instructions. This has greatly reduced our customer service and improved the satisfaction of our customers.”

Anne Cimetiere
Customer Success Consultant

“With our I&A department, we need to ensure that our employees have as much knowledge as possible about the software products we use. SelfGuide plays an important role in this.”

Tonny van der Putten
Application Administrator

“SelfGuide enables us to support the development and growth of our employees in a structured and efficient way. SelfGuide is a valuable tool that contributes to the continuous improvement of our internal processes and strengthens team engagement.”

Paul Govers
Data-analist

“We use SelfGuide in our organization to support our employees in all kinds of activities. The instructions are set up by our core users and then used by the organization's colleagues to perform new or repetitive tasks according to the process. That is trouble-free.”

Jacob ten Toom
Medewerker IT

“With SelfGuide, we can make public work instructions available to our clients via our website. This allows them to receive support with applications at their own pace. Our clients find this very pleasant.”

Roy van Keulen
ICT Service Coordinator

“We wanted to make instructions ourselves. The simplicity and speed to create and maintain instructions with SelfGuide is really impressive.”

Mara Kremer
ICT Advisor

“An important goal for us was to create more instructions to improve the digital skills of end users. We can certainly see that we are succeeding in that.”

Mieke Hoogeveen
Automation specialist

“One of the functional administrators said: 'I used to really take a few days to get a manual in Word right. Now it's just a matter of minutes — click, click, done”. When users tell that to colleagues, it sells itself. All I have to do is make the connection.”

Pieter-Bas Wijne
Consultant

“For us, instructions in SelfGuide fill exactly the gap between text and video when communicating information about our software. The format of the instructions allows us to bring information closer to our customers.”

Tim van Kester
Technical Writer

“With SelfGuide, we can create application instructions and user guides in just 15% of the time compared to before. In addition, it saves considerable time for both administrators and users in maintaining, searching and sharing instructions.

Nick van Nunen
Process Change Manager

“SelfGuide's strength lies in its simplicity. You can quickly create a short, complete and clear instruction or user guide. We save a lot of time solving user questions and see that employees become more self-reliant.”

Leonardo Lay
Functional Application Manager

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