Have you checked out making your own wiki site? Wiki.js or xwiki or something?

 

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Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2020 12:16 PM
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All paper, when aged appropriately, becomes irrelevant.  So cleaning off the 
desk is more of an archaeological dig and disposal than an archival activity.  

 

From: Steven Kenney 

Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2020 10:12 AM

To: af 

Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Documentation / KB Software

 

Evil thoughts...  If I had any power would I actually do it?  I doubt it.  Tech 
staff know how to use it but with administrative non technical staff, you 
really do need to train them on software.  Including execs. Especially since 
millennials and kids don't learn cursive anymore, nor proper grammar, it's no 
wonder they can't learn simple programs.  Almost need to make things into a 
game nowadays for them to learn.    

 

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From: "Adam Moffett" <dmmoff...@gmail.com>
To: "af" <af@af.afmug.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2020 12:01:14 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Documentation / KB Software

 

If it was a file drawer full of paper sketches and little labels on each folder 
would that be too hard for them?  

If simple things are too hard then change the people instead of the software.  
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On 10/8/2020 11:58 AM, Steven Kenney wrote:

        OneNote isn't what I'm looking for.  Think of a repo of documentation,  
howto's faq's articles.  All sorts of content for technical documentation.  I'm 
not looking for something that makes and stores forms and files.  Something 
that can be indexed and easily searched,  and displayed nicely for the average 
user.  I mean I literally have people complaining to me that Trello is too 
difficult to learn on their own.  

         

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        From: "Adam Moffett" mailto:dmmoff...@gmail.com
        To: "af" mailto:af@af.afmug.com
        Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2020 11:37:49 AM
        Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Documentation / KB Software

         

        I messed with OneNote.....it actually is extremely awesome.  I made a 
tower info template in 1/2 an hour, I could start slapping in data in a 
consistent format very easily.  Dragging in pictures, text, videos, etc is 
straightforward.  

        Then I hung up on two things....One was where is stuff actually stored. 
 It seemed like if I made something, it's stored in my Microsoft cloud account, 
and if another guy made something it's stored in his Microsoft cloud account.  
If one of us leaves the data needs to be persistent and stay with the company 
somehow.  There's probably a way to handle that, but I didn't get as far as 
figuring that out. 

        2nd thing was versions.  I had Office 2016, another guy had a different 
edition.  There were things I made and shared with him that looked all wrong or 
non-existent when he viewed them.   I think you'd have to commit to Office365 
so everybody would always be on the same rev.  But then I was kinda put off 
that the issue came up at all.  Suppose I put time into a great looking tower 
site doc with drawings and the whole 9 yards.  Then I don't need to look at it 
again until 2025.  Is it gonna be all screwed up now in the 2025 revision of 
OneNote? 

        Convince me it's all gonna be ok and MSFT won't screw me up.

         

        On 10/8/2020 10:17 AM, Steven Kenney wrote:

                Microsoft is a actually a 4 letter word.  Did you know that?

                 

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                From: "Steve Jones" mailto:thatoneguyst...@gmail.com
                To: "af" mailto:af@af.afmug.com
                Sent: Thursday, October 8, 2020 9:51:42 AM
                Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Documentation / KB Software

                 

                Onenote is what I settled on. 

                 

                On Thu, Oct 8, 2020, 8:20 AM Steven Kenney 
<st...@wavedirect.org> wrote:

                        We have a wiki,  however I'm looking to upgrade and 
provide something a little more user friendly so all the non technical folks 
can share documentation.  I'm looking on prem open source something that is NOT 
wordpress based.  I've seen many CMS' out there but none of them have the look 
and feel that we want.  It must be simple to add content such as howto's, 
guides, faqs etc.  All the documentation a medium sized company growing quickly 
into a large company will need.   I guess it would be considered a KMS.   It 
must have a good API.  

                         

                        One system that really piqued my interest is 
Document360 however it isn't open source, nor on prem and its ungodly 
expensive.   So if you know something similar please advise.  What do you use?

                         

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