Knowledge management as a library
Tutorial – BookStack
BookStack gives even inexperienced users the ability to create documentation and other collections of information in next to no time.
The increasing flood of knowledge in all areas of life is leading to a growing need to structure, organize, and store information in an easily accessible way. This applies equally to the professional and private spheres. BookStack [1], an open source wiki that has been developed under the MIT license for 10 years, sets out to handle this task. It's useful for individual users and households, as well as for small teams and organizations.
If you're responsible for managing IT in your household, you'll be familiar with the problem: The number of devices you need to manage just keeps growing. It becomes increasingly difficult to keep track of everything, and you find yourself looking all over the place for information about individual systems. BookStack is a user-friendly and powerful wiki that helps you organize all the information you need about your household's IT inventory, ranging from the device specifications and IP addresses of the services on your home server to complete documentation of the application and service setups. This means you can trace the structure of your household IT in detail even years later. Another example of the many potential applications for BookStack is collaborating on documents in a team of developers and technical authors.
After installing the wiki, basic word processing skills are all you need to start creating content in BookStack. At the same time, the software comes with advanced features that don't get in the way of the program's ease of use.
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