Video tutorials
Some things are quicker to watch than to read. Below are recorded walkthroughs of CRAYON-C4 — building a model, moving around a diagram, exporting a document — filmed in the real app, at the pace you would work at yourself.
Watch
New tutorials show up here as they are published, so it is worth coming back. Subscribe on the SQUORA channel to hear about them first — the channel also carries announcements and shorter clips alongside the tutorials.
What's covered
The tutorials follow the same path these docs do, so you can watch one and then read the matching page:
| Watch | Then read |
|---|---|
| Creating a project and your first diagram | Your first diagram |
| Moving between diagrams — panes, breadcrumb, drill-down | Working in the three editors |
| Building out a C4 model level by level | C4 guides |
| Exporting to PDF or Markdown | Export |
Getting the most out of them
- Follow along in the app. Open the demo project in a second tab and repeat each step as it happens — the demo is there to be taken apart, and nothing you do to it touches your own projects.
- Pause on the canvas. Most walkthroughs move briskly through the three-pane layout; a pause is usually enough to see which pane an action started in.
- Turn on captions if the vocabulary is new — element, container, boundary and lane all get spoken before they are written down.
Videos play on YouTube, and nothing about you is sent there until you start one.
Where next
- Getting started — the written version of the walkthroughs, at your own pace.
- Take the tour — an in-app guided tour of the screens.
- Concepts — the ideas behind the three diagram types.
- Support — if a video leaves a question open.