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Hosted wiki platform that makes it a breeze to document projects

This is a wiki tool. A uniquely powerful authoring environment that integrates beautifully with this same company’s JIRA ticketing system. In recent years, I’ve migrated away from the Atlassian stack to Microsoft Azure DevOps – but still think highly of Atlassian products.

This vendor has highly effective training material on their site. Their tutorials on Git and their free Git client SourceTree are both top-notch. I use SourceTree daily and have written about it here.

Atlassian Confluence for Technical Documention

Atlassian Confluence for Technical Documention

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Process & Documentation Documentation Confluence
A video demonstration of Atlassian Confluence as a documentation alternative to Microsoft Word, SharePoint and OneNote. For those not familiar, Confluence is a Wiki platform ideally suited for documenting technical topics. It offers “just-enough” editing capability on a page to deliver attractive, readable content. It is simple and efficient to author and organize content. Key benefits of the software: Highly usable and simple to learn authoring environment Hierarchical organization into spaces and pages Heads-Up page authoring Plugin capabilities for diagrams, visuals Integration with JIRA task management Active-directory (AD) integration with configurable permissions Content stored in Microsoft SQL Server Inexpensive licenses for smaller workgroups In the video below, the author demonstrates Confluence using the personal wiki he’s revised over the past decade.