 I'll be straight with you, I've been a bit of a noob and been doing something the hard way. Yep, using the online Microsoft MateCode editor to download and then manually transfer their hex files across to the microgrid. What does that equate to? Pain, frustration and time that you will never ever see again. Solution? Post a YouTube video that mentions this and then have the community respond with an answer. Coming your way in just a moment. Hello world surfing scratcher here, teacher, server, programmer and on this channel I make how to decoding videos. However this week it's all been inspired by Pinky Pepper who dropped a comment on last week's video about a pain point that I'd been experiencing with the online Microsoft MateCode editor. Pinky Pepper is an online scratcher and YouTuber and I'll link to them in the description below and be sure to subscribe to them. So the offline editor is a space where you get to work offline with all your micro bit projects and that always makes me feel a little bit calmer for some reason. You're not bombarded with a bunch of popups that confuse your students and downloading the hex file three or four times. In the offline editor you can choose the micro bit as a storage location directly thus removing the step of need to transfer it manually. Now just a heads up, I'm working with the Mac operating system here but the steps should be very similar for Windows. Now Pinky Pepper also mentions a little gudger, if you're at a school you might have a stumbling block of installing this onto the computer so just be wary of that. I've got a little walkthrough of the steps that you can go through to download this directly onto the micro bit. Do that now. The first thing you'll want to do is head over to the makecode.microbit.org slash offline URL so that you can go get the offline editor. Note at the time of this recording that the Macode offline app is currently in development so be sure to visit this page to check out the status of the offline app as not all extensions are available to it. When you're on this page you want to click on the Macode offline app link. That'll take you to makecode.microbit.org slash offline dash app. Have a read through and accept the following terms and once you do that click the checkbox and download the offline app that is relevant to your operating system. I'm on Mac so I'm going to click that. As the file has downloaded let's go find it. Okay let's unzip it then just drag and drop the app into the applications folder. I've already got it installed so I'm not going to do that. Double click on your applications folder and find the make good for the microbit application and then double click to open it. If you've been working with the online editor this should all look pretty familiar. I'm not going to go over this. Let's just create a new project and I'm just going to name this offline download and now for the bit that you came here for and that really excites me. Press that save button. You're going to be prompted with a dialog box and if you check out your locations you'll see that you can save directly to the microbit there so you don't have to do any transferring of files. Hurrah! And there's our confirmation. It's not ejected properly. Our app is now on the microbit. Okay I'm just back here on the online version of the make good editor. I'm going to click a project that I worked on a little while ago. Rock, paper, scissors. You can check your card in the top corner to check that out. And I'm going to press the save button so I can save it to my computer. And notice how we don't get the dialog box is just gone directly to our downloads. So what I'm going to do is jump over to the offline editor and import that and then we'll get it on the microbit. Here I am back in the offline editor. I'm going to press import. I'm going to import from a file. Going to choose a file. And let's choose the rock, paper, scissors, hex that we just downloaded. Go ahead and open it. Now we're here in the project. I'm just going to press the save button. Going to save it directly onto the microbit. Hit save. Let's wait for our confirmation. There's our confirmation. I'm just going to jump over to the microbit and give it a shake. Cool, we just got some paper. Give it another shake. And there's our rock. And now we've got our scissors. Success. All right, it's time for a scratchy question and I feel so inspired by last week's comment that I want you to drop your tips that you have that you would like to share with our community down below in the comments section. Might even make a video about it. Hey, thanks for checking out this quick tip tutorial. Smash that like button if you found some value and check out some other content on your screen right now. Also got a link to Pinky Pepper's YouTube channel. Go sus that out. But until then, I'm off to go find a wave. I'll catch you in the next one.