Documents, or Reading Material, are a great compliment to any practice. When prepared properly, they can make a difference in clients adopting new ideas or achieving the goals they are working towards.

That's why Meal Garden provides a flexible, intuitive tool for importing, creating, and managing documents.

Documents in Meal Garden are Multi-Media: text, video, hyperlinks, PDF's, audio, or any combination of.

This flexibility makes it easy for you to create engaging, beautiful content that will be easy for your clients and customers to engage with and understand.

There are three ways to create documents in Meal Garden:

The information below will walk you through each option.

To upload an existing file, select 'Documents' and then click 'Upload,' and select the file you'd like to upload.

Once you've uploaded the document, it can be shared with clients or added to programs or home pages via the 'add' function.

Meal Garden employs a flexible document creation tool called Froala, the same editor used by Netflix, Amazon, Apple, and Unbounce.

This editor provides you a flexible way to import and create beautiful, interactive content directly within Meal Garden.

To begin, select 'create' on the top left-hand corner of the screen and then select ' document' and finally, click on 'Reading Material'

Now that you've created the document, you have two choices:

The editor provides all the flexibility you're familiar with from programs like Microsoft Word or Google Documents, with the bonus of importing content from these documents without losing the formatting between documents.

All you need to do is open the document (Google or Word) that you'd like to copy, click 'edit,' click 'select all,' and then paste that content into your Meal Garden document.

Pro Tip: 'Trust but Verify' Be sure to review and address any anomalies with the upload; depending on Internet speed and the extent of formatting, you may need to make some minor adjustments.

Finally, if you don't have a document to upload or copy-and-paste from, you can use the editor to create beautifully formatted content.

The options in Meal Garden are similar to those you'll find in most document editing programs. You can add images, tables, videos, and hyperlinks to your documents providing a flexible and enjoyable experience for you and anyone who interacts with your content.

The brief video below walks you through all the different capabilities.

ProTip: The editor in Meal Garden works with Grammarly, an amazing tool that makes it easy to ensure your grammar and spelling are accurate. Check out the free version here.

In summary:

If you share content from around the Internet and would like to provide direct links to the content to ensure it's always up-to-date, you can create a document and add a hyperlink.

Once the content is created, you can add some additional data elements; these include:

***Thumb Nail Image***

The thumbnail image will replace the default image when the content is displayed in Meal Garden.

***Privacy***

There are three types of privacy for your Meal Plans:

Pro Tip: By default, all your content is marked Private.

Tags are a lightweight tool to categorize and organize your content in Meal Garden. You can create your own tags, or you can use tags created and maintained by Meal Garden.

Want to collect feedback? Turn on comments and provide your clients the opportunity to share and discuss amongst the community.

Now that your content is ready to go, take a quick look at what everyone else will see by pressing 'Preview' on the bottom menu bar.

If it looks good, select 'share,' and you'll be able to add it to your home page, programs, or share with specific clients.

You can also access the document from the 'add' buttons available in clients and programs.

Now that you've mastered Collections keep going, and get familiar with the other great aspects of Meal Garden.

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