Mostly meetings and word of mouth. That's why I lose one week+ on a lab software that I cannot make run on my local development machine. Even personal projects I spend a few months on are better documented than the software that is used here in production.
Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
#72I've been really enjoying Notion. I used to use evernote and apple notes. Apple notes is still so much faster for quick stuff. But for writing/thinking/capturing etc. I'm in the notion camp.
Re: Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
#73I use google keep for writing notes. In work we use the enterprise garbage all others use too. Google calender for datespecific stuff. Anything coding specific i have in github as markdown documents, some remain as drafts in my blog repository.
Re: Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
#74Notion: https://notion.so [edit: I work at Notion. I’ve added some more color about that to the top here. This isn’t marketing spam I’m commenting from bed on my phone - sorry that it came off slimy] Notion is a malleable collaborative wiki that also has relational databases. We build Notion, so it figures that Notion is our single source of truth. I think the way we use Notion internally works pretty well - with bet…
IMO you should disclose (and it is a disclosure, not a disclaimer) your employer at the top, because it makes the rest of your comment something nearer to marketing copy than user review.
EDIT: Check OPs history, he asked this exact same question 46 days ago!
Ive never heard of this startup before, now they're all over this thread. Do you reckon they made this whole thread for marketing purposes? OP is a pretty anonymous user.
I already dislike them now & hopefully never have to use them. Someone else posted Tiddlywiki which is an amazing open-source program, suggest everyone at least check it out. It changed my life. I obviously have no stake in it, so why doubt me? No disclaimer necessary.
Re: Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
#75TiddlyWiki: https://tiddlywiki.com/
Seconding TiddlyWiki.
I use it as a personal wiki at work.
It even supports LaTeX (via KaTeX)!
Here are the customizations I found useful:
* Table of Contents:
By default, there is not Table of Contents in the wiki. So a TableOfContents tiddler was added.
The tag $:/tags/SideBar adds it to the nav bar, and the field list-before controls the position.
New entries are added to the table of contents by adding the TableOfContents tag.
Note: the same code can be used in tiddlers to list tiddlers with a given tag.
* Journal:
New Journal date format was changed to YYYY/0MM/0DD (DDD, MMM DDth). This makes lexicographic ordering of Journal tiddlers to be chronological.
That is, Journal tiddlers will be sorted by date when sorted by name.
Visual theme:
The layout was changed to fluid-fixed Settings - Appearance - Theme Tweaks - Options - Sidebar Layout: Fluid story, fixed sidebar
Sidebar width: 350px
This looks particularly well when occupying one half of a wide screen.
Appearance - Code Foreground was changed to #0a5701 (green, used to be red). This affects the color of text enclosed by single tick marks.
New Journal, Attachment, Configutation, Manager buttons were added
* Plugins:
The following plug-ins were added:
KaTeX for LaTeX support;
Highlight.js for code syntax highlighting
Re: Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
#76I use Markdown documents in Git repositories whenever I can. Also try to evangelize for this at work. PRs then include relevant changes to both code and docs and it's beautiful. For personal project docs I use this exclusively. At work it depends on the team, some people don't like it, but most often it is because they don't like keeping docs at all, not because of an alternative preference. I avoid UI and WYSIWYG ba…
Do you use any specific structure for your markdown documents? Confluence i believe helps structure the knowledge
Re: Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
#77I am starting a new venture and will use BookStackApp (https://www.bookstackapp.com) as my single source of truth.
It is searchable, offers markdown and WYSIWYG editing, page templates, and is quite opinionated on how to layout things.
My reasoning for this is to layout basic templates and processes for sales, support, ops, and office management.
This is also used to lay a foundation for ISO 27001/27002 compliance and certification along with Eramba (https://eramba.org)
The last part is really niche, but coming from a Healthcare background taught me hard lessons in NOT HAVING YOUR DOCUMENTATION AND COMPLIANCE SHIT TOGETHER (TM) when you get vendor or compliance audits.
Re: Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
#78By the way, does anyone has tried Stackorvelflow for teams? Is it good?
We tried. It's pretty much like the normal stack overflow (Question and Answer based).
But we found that in the end - a normal wiki was actually more useful. I think this was mainly because of how our organization works. We're all physically on the same campus, at most a colleague is 2 minutes walking away. Hence we tend to often have in-person communication, or first via Slack, after which a colleague walks over to explain it anyway..
Using a wiki, the person knowledgeable about the domain can just create a document to refer people to which is quite natural. What is not natural for this person is to create a question and then answer it himself. (I know you could use SO as a wiki but than you're losing some of the utility anyway).
I'm not saying that it can't work, but a lot depends on company culture / structure, at least I think so. So if you're in a situation where people often post questions on slack and people respond through slack, maybe SO is a good alternative.
(Oh also, on another note, during our test people would post question on SO and no one would answer because no one is looking, or people think "someone else will answer" and don't bother to check up later. Via slack, at least it's more visible and scoped to the correct channel with the correct people for the domain).
YMMV ofc :)
Re: Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
IMO you should disclose (and it is a disclosure, not a disclaimer) your employer at the top, because it makes the rest of your comment something nearer to marketing copy than user review.
EDIT: Check OPs history, he asked this exact same question 46 days ago! Ive never heard of this startup before, now they're all over this thread. Do you reckon they made this whole thread for marketing purposes? OP is a pretty anonymous user. I already dislike them now & hopefully never have to use them. Someone else posted Tiddlywiki which is an amazing open-source program, suggest everyone at least check it out. It…
Tiddly Wiki is indeed awesome. There is one few feature I would like (export to a graph database), and the wiki syntax is something annoying to use but overall this is genious level idea and great execution.
Re: Ask HN: How do you share/organize knowledge at work and life?
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
IMO you should disclose (and it is a disclosure, not a disclaimer) your employer at the top, because it makes the rest of your comment something nearer to marketing copy than user review.
EDIT: Check OPs history, he asked this exact same question 46 days ago! Ive never heard of this startup before, now they're all over this thread. Do you reckon they made this whole thread for marketing purposes? OP is a pretty anonymous user. I already dislike them now & hopefully never have to use them. Someone else posted Tiddlywiki which is an amazing open-source program, suggest everyone at least check it out. It…
They've been around for a few years, and really are a pretty good collaborative tool with a lot of possible workflows and use-cases.
I've seen Notion mentioned often on HN, and after giving it a try I'd recommend to at least look into it to see for yourself.