I needed to draw an L-shaped box for a diagram. I spent an hour trying to figure out how to draw it using Excalidraw. I found this YouTube video. I then had to figure out why the audio wouldn’t play. I had this problem yesterday and thought I had resolved it but I guess not.

After ten minutes of that, I tried a different video and the audio played just fine.

Aha, I said to myself—audio does not play because there is no audio.

I scrubbed back and forth in the video trying to figure out what they were doing. No luck.

Then I expanded the caption and discovered there are also detailed instructions in the caption. Hooray!

I fiddled for about two minutes and got a nice, L-shaped box.

That was easy! I declared to myself.

Conclusions:

  1. YouTube instructional videos for software are evil. Please, please, please just give me written documentation with diagrams, and maybe the occasional animated GIF to illustrate where to click and mouse around and so forth.
  2. That’s really weird usage of the word “easy.”