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.
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Thanks for sharing! I'm very tempted to give Bookstack a go.
Documentation? What's that?
Haha that would be most the people on our team's response for sure.
For technical documentation, most of our teams are currently using Gitlab pages, however we are steadily moving to Backstage
How is backstage? I look at it and feel perhaps we should just be using all the features of gitlab. Does it really bring something better to the table?
You could have them take s look at XWiki - Tomcat-based, very Confluence-like, open source.
I will take a peek at this, thank you!
Not using it, but Bookstack looked real nice for a documentation site.
We're using a different wiki at the moment for 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.
I had Bookstack at a previous org and really liked it, just nobody cared about it.
Documents, procedures, and manuals in Dropbox. Notes, reports, and to do lists in OneNote
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.
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.