Process Documentation?

Posted by Garland Coulson
Oct 13, 2017 at 07:48 PM

MadaboutDana wrote:
> >I can recommend Dokuwiki, which is relatively easy to set up, has a
>powerful search engine, and if you don’t want to set it up on your own
>web server, is hosted by lots of service providers.

Thanks. I did install Dokuwiki but it is NOT intuitive at all. I couldn’t get a table of contents/navigation to work. No [new page] button - you have to type a complex command or do a search for a nonexistant page and then a [create page] option finally shows up. Very poor interface.
> >But Wordpress also offers a plethora of useful themes. One of them,
>which might meet your needs, is PrimusNote (http://www.primusnote.org for live
>demo). It’s free, and it’s got a lovely set of functions (they also
>offer hosted services, but those start at a relatively robust USD 29 per
>month, albeit for apparently unlimited users and 5GB of storage space).

I use WordPress all the time, but PrimusNote looks like a Kanban style task management system, not a documentation tool. I already have good task management systems, I just need a way to document how to do the procedures more easily,

>A free option would be Samepage (http://www.samepage.io). Don’t be put off by
>the fact that the free option only includes 10 pages; you get 1GB of
>space (more than enough for most purposes), plus a plethora of team
>options. You can put any number of items on a page, because of the way
>Samepage is structured (by different kinds of elements, including text
>elements, task elements, file management elements, calendar elements
>etc. etc.). It’s best to go and try it out, because it will surprise
>you. It’s the successor to Kerio Workspace, which we still use
>internally because it’s so user-friendly and capacious. If you decide
>you like it, the pricing isn’t outrageous.

SamePage is a task management and collaboration system and not really a documentation system. So it doesn’t really fit the bill either. Of the ones you mentioned Dokuwiki comes closest but the user interface is unusable.