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!

  • bladewdr@infosec.pub
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    2 years ago

    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.

    • kalipikeOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for sharing! I’m very tempted to give Bookstack a go.

  • polystruct@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    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).

    • kalipikeOP
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      2 years ago

      Cool, thanks for sharing! Yeah I think it would be hard to convince anyone to use anything but SharePoint but I’m just formating options. Definitely want as little friction but with decent structure as possible to encourage active use of it.

  • flof@feddit.de
    1·
    2 years ago

    You could have them take s look at XWiki - Tomcat-based, very Confluence-like, open source.

    • kalipikeOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Haha that would be most the people on our team’s response for sure.

  • mythnubb@vlemmy.net
    1·
    2 years ago

    Not using it, but Bookstack looked real nice for a documentation site.

    We’re using a different wiki at the moment for it.

    • kalipikeOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      I had Bookstack at a previous org and really liked it, just nobody cared about it.

    • kalipikeOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • kalipikeOP
      1·
      2 years ago

      This looks pretty interesting! Will definitely check it out, thanks.