Comments on: Productivity tip: make “howto” files

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:43:28 +0000

I also tried this once – but I just didn’t had the discipline to keep up the good work… nice to see, that someone has!

By: sohbet

sohbet — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:58:39 +0000

thnxxx

By: flangedirect

flangedirect — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:53:12 +0000

We use a simple CMS system, similar to Joomla, with all content easily organized and faq pages easily made, and of course this can be easily viewed internally or published. Just a suggestion, it’s worked very well so far and we are amassing a huge knowledge base that’s not only easily search-able, but nice looking and presentable as well.

By: china wholesale

china wholesale — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:31:28 +0000

I think Google Notebook and bookmarks works really good for snipping bits from the web that you need to remember for your howto.
Yahoo answer is a good wiki service too

By: paul

paul — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:02:56 +0000

It all sounds great, but what if Google decides to stop hosting some service we all love and use ?? Especially if it’s marked as Beta. I guess my hard-drive can crash as well, or my house can burn down with all my CD backups stashed in the basement.
Does google guarentee anything when it comes to file safety ?

By: Google Groups as Repository

Google Groups as Repository — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:16:21 +0000

In search of the perfect personal online/offline repository…

I’ve been using Furl.net as a personal repository for several years, but that’s a bit cumbersome. I started using Google Notebook, but now that’s gotten cumbersome too, having more than a few dozen topics and a few dozen notebooks. Google docs are slow.

You can download/backup your Furl.net archive, but not your Google Notebook.

Perhaps a better repository would be a personal Google Group?

You can email notes into it.

You can keep nicely formatted, updated pages.

You can upload/download files…

Why not?

Whatever it is, it should be available to any wwweb browser… no app to install… and there should be a downloadable backup, as a safety-net…

Ideally, there would be online web access, also a downloadable backup. When not connected to the internet, that becomes an update-able “live” backup which can also be uploaded, mirrored or restored. Dynamic re-sync, even? Workgroups, too? a-la Lotus Notes?

Anything out there now that works for all these computing-nomad needs?

… could be the next killer app?

By: spider ninja

spider ninja — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:45:07 +0000

I want to see the HOWTO find the command I need in one of those 1750+ files

By: Jan

Jan — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:13:42 +0000

what about WikidPad

http://www.jhorman.org/wikidPad/

i use it all the time to write up things like this

By: jason

jason — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 22:13:58 +0000

Thomas i was checking out Confluence pricing and i agree it is expensive but they do allow for a personal License. I got the info from there website below

“Personal Licenses

You can use Confluence as your personal wiki for free.

* Limited to two users.
* The Personal License doesn’t include support from Atlassian.

A Confluence Personal License entitles you to:

* Deploy a single instance of Confluence onto a single server in a non-commercial environment;
* Full access for up to two registered users;
* Unlimited anonymous visitors – allow as many people as you want to read and comment on your pages;
* Unlimited pages, spaces and comments;
* Perpetual Confluence use; and
* Software updates for 12 months.”

By: Shara Karasic

Shara Karasic — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:56:19 +0000

Hi Steve and everyone,

Work.com is a site that is a collection of user-submitted how-to guides for any business topics, from SEO to venture capital. Users can also comment on and save others’ guides. The how-to guide input form is pretty highly structured – good for some purposes but overkill for others. It does offer decent visibility amongst a small business community.

Check it out!

Shara