don't repeat «tips and tricks»

[roambotics_scott]

Long ago I turned off tips and tricks but then recently I found a few basic things mentioned in some videos that I never knew about so I thought I'd turn them back on in the hope that I might actually learn something new.. the problem is that 

For example, barring traumatic head injury, I suspect that most users will not need to be told

with every new line. 

Aside from feeling condescending somewhere by the 40th or 50th time, it wastes screen real estate, takes a moment to read and dismiss, and is utterly unhelpful most of the time. More importantly, it made me go to the preferences and turn off tips and tricks again because even if there may actually be some useful and interesting things in there, there is too much noise to make mining for those worth my while.

Instead, I'd mention things once or even once in a rare while, and let the user say «I get it - don't bother me with this again». 

If it was done well though, something like that in the UI could make things even more discoverable and naturally integrate learning into the environment without forcing the users to go outside and sift / sit through videos.

[haughec]

Agreed.  We're in the process of moving tips/tricks to a collapsible portion of command dialogs to eliminate the repetition/distraction of the current pop-up.  We will also provide the ability to access related Help documentation from within each command.

Thanks,

Charles