Ask HN: How are you writing documentation? What tools do you use?
This was last asked 5 years ago, but the ecosystem has changed somewhat since then, so I figured it was worth asking again.<p>We&#x27;ve long struggled with documentation.  Both structured documentation and Q&amp;A.  We&#x27;ve kept our structured documentation in a github repo in the past, but it&#x27;s been a challenge to get people to write it and keep it up to date consistently.  And people often forget it&#x27;s there when they have a question they need answered.<p>Q&amp;A just happens in a slack channel right now, but that makes it ephemeral for all practical purposes.  Slack search just wasn&#x27;t built for this, and no one wants to wade through a slack back and forth to try to find the answer to their question.<p>We have Guru that we use for policy documentation, HR, sales&#x2F;marketing, etc.  But it&#x27;s never felt like a good fit for technical documentation.  We&#x27;re considering trying it anyway.<p>We&#x27;re also looking at Stackoverflow Teams for its Q&amp;A functionality, and possibly using Articles for structured.  But Articles seems pretty weak.<p>What else is out there?  This is purely internal documentation for us, so we&#x27;d like it authentication protected and we&#x27;re not keen to build our own system using something like Markdown Docs or Sphinx.  And we&#x27;re wary of wikis due to their tendency to decay towards choas - we&#x27;re already struggling a bit to keep our documentation well organized in Github and Guru.  Hence, we&#x27;ve avoided Confluence.<p>What is everyone else using?  What other tools are out there?  Does anyone feel like they&#x27;ve really solved the documentation problem?  If so, how?