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Ask HN: Which Wiki or internal documentation tools do you use?

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Re: Ask HN: Which Wiki or internal documentation tools do you use?

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Post by hypertexthero »

nvAlt 2, a fork of the original Notational Velocity, is a good option for personal use that supports MultiMarkdown: http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/

You can synchronize with Simplenote — https://simplenote.com/ — which has a mobile version so your notes are viewable on your phone.

You can also use double brackets for wiki functionality to automatically create a link to another page of the same name. For example, [[this]] would create a link to a page called ’this’.

Another option that is good for many people working together is Gollum, a wiki system built on top of Git. It is the basis for GitHub’s wiki pages, if I remember correctly: https://github.com/gollum/gollum

Re: Ask HN: Which Wiki or internal documentation tools do you use?

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Post by anant90 »

juvoni wrote: post #10

Notion ( https://notion.so ) All in one workspace, combines, trello, airtable, evernote, and docs. Great embed support and awesome for small teams and personal use. It's a modern day commonplace book.

The only reason I gave up on Notion sometime last year was that it was mind-numbingly slow. Great product otherwise.

Re: Ask HN: Which Wiki or internal documentation tools do you use?

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Post by zzaner »

Nuclino (https://www.nuclino.com/)

It's a minimalist wiki with markdown support and real-time collaboration features. A lot faster and more lightweight than most of the old school wikis e.g. Confluence, MediaWiki, SharePoint (ugh).

Also has a kanban board view for sprint planning.

Re: Ask HN: Which Wiki or internal documentation tools do you use?

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Post by harlanji »

epage wrote: post #14

> Some basic requirements are: - searchable - code snippets - hyperlinking I think another requirement to add is diagramming. I think wiki-style diagramming would be a big help for programmers to better communicate ideas. I've used external tools like draw.io but the overhead for editing, downloading, and uploading I feel gets in the way. Sadly, we are on confluence but don't use the draw.io plugin [1]. Built-in supp…

I like Dia enough, but lately InkScape is what’s up. Both use file formats that could be generated from source as part of the build, as well.

Re: Ask HN: Which Wiki or internal documentation tools do you use?

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Post by avitzurel »

We use confluence. It integrates with Jira and SAML so we have all of our users in there and it's really convenient to mention a ticket number or a team member and have it automatically import the details.

The main point that confluence does really poorly (for me) is the lack of an external editor and the absolutely shameful support for Markdown.

If I could edit the page with git like interface and an external editor (like you can do on Github), it would be absolutely amazing and would make it a killer product for us.

Moving to another solution without deep integration to confluence/Jira is not possible since those are being used by product as well.

Re: Ask HN: Which Wiki or internal documentation tools do you use?

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Post by amf12 »

Someone1234 wrote: post #2

The desktop version of OneNote. We've tried to use MediaWiki and other fancy solutions (inc. O365's SharePoint/online OneNote) and desktop OneNote is the only one that stuck. We have .one files for each major topic with sections and pages within them. It is kind of a "low tech" solution, and maybe that is why it works. It gets out of the way, easy to backup, no downtime, etc. Although Microsoft keeps threatening to d…

We use OneNote at work. I don't really like it as a Wiki tool. Its a superfast solution to get the work done, but the search sucks. Its difficult to get it organized if there is a lot of documentation. Its amazing to use as a personal notebook but not wiki.
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