An SOP you can check off
An onboarding procedure as a page you work through, instead of a doc you scroll past. A small demo of why format matters.
Sample lab entry. A standard operating procedure is usually a wall of numbered text. Here’s a first-week onboarding SOP where each step opens on its own, so a new hire sees one thing at a time. It uses no JavaScript, just the HTML <details> element. It also prints fully expanded.
Day 1 — Get access
Laptop, accounts, and the three channels that matter. Everything else can wait.
Day 2 — Meet your people
Thirty minutes with your manager, your onboarding buddy, and one person outside your team.
Day 3 — Ship something small
A typo fix, a doc update, a first post. The point is to finish something in your first week.
Why bother
A doc gets read once. A tool gets used again. When the format matches the task, people follow the process without being told twice.