Hi, all!
For those of you who work in organizations that do decent documentation, what are you using?
We currently just have a bunch of word docs in a SharePoint document library. I’ve previously used dedicated solutions for this such as Bookstack and Confluence. The company is very anti-Atlassian, so Confluence is out.
Just want to see what y’all are using as I search for a better solution.
Thanks!
I recently migrated all our various Excel and Word documents from Sharepoint into a self-hosted Bookstack instance. I love it.
I have one shelf for stuff like SOP, contracts, etc, and another for customer documentation.
Thanks for sharing! I’m very tempted to give Bookstack a go.
We use outline. Its a small startup with a solid product, and the devs are super responsive.
This looks pretty interesting! Will definitely check it out, thanks.
Currently Confluence. We do have a split documentation policy, where long-lived and broadly communicated information should be on M365 (SharePoint and affiliated services) whereas more technical or short-lived (project) documentation is on Confluence.
But even certain broad-use information is showing up on Confluence more and more given it’s easier use (wiki and plugins like the draw.io support).
Matterport tours. This is by far one of the best decisions we have made. We have notes, photos, documents, all linked in a 3D space of the site. We also use photogrammetry generated from drone footage for some of the larger exterior spaces and our wireless runs.
If we are on the phone with a client we usually pull the tour up in one window and the text notes up in another and we can walk them through anything. We also do cameras so I often link the cameras in the tour so we can just click and have Realtime interactions and see what the issue is.
You could have them take s look at XWiki - Tomcat-based, very Confluence-like, open source.
Where I work we are hosting onlyoffice and integrate it with nextcloud.
Thanks for sharing!
Documents, procedures, and manuals in Dropbox. Notes, reports, and to do lists in OneNote
Not using it, but Bookstack looked real nice for a documentation site.
We’re using a different wiki at the moment for it.
I had Bookstack at a previous org and really liked it, just nobody cared about it.
I setup bookstack at my last job and personally loved it. But yeah, takes a lot to get everyone on board with something like that. I liked that you could export stuff out of it easily too. Bridges the gap if you need to email documentation.
ITGlue has been working out well for us.
I love the look of ITGlue and one member of our team used it at several other orgs and loved it. It just seems pretty overkill with all the features since we have other platforms that handle the passwords/secrets/assets/etc. I do like the look of it though, and am considering it.
