Best way to archive technical guides

jibbajabba

I have so many documents flying around with all sorts of technical stuff which I want to put "somewhere" ...

I checked some KB software scripts, thought about using a normal forum and checked the "wiki" but it is either too blown up or not easy to use ...

Any suggestions ?

darkerosxx

Create a gmail account for just that purpose and email them to yourself within that e-mail account.

Slowhand

darkerosxx wrote:

Create a gmail account for just that purpose and email them to yourself within that e-mail account.

I'll second that. With Gmails labeling feature, it'll be very easy to organize your documents into general categories and you can mark important or in-use docs with a star. That, and you get TONS of storage space so you won't need anyplace else for storage. Another option is something like Drop Box, which allows you to create a folder in My Documents that synchs up with an online datastore. You can install the software on any number of computers, and even access the files online. You'd have to create a folder-tree to support your own organizational structure, however.

jibbajabba

This is what I am doing now but I also want to make the guides available to my colleagues (like build notes for server, Linux, Cluster and whatnot).

gorebrush

We use SharePoint here, but that might be a bit overkill.

I would like an easy alternative.

A wiki would be awesome, but I'd imagine a lot of work...

jibbajabba

Most software is unfortunately overkill or doesn't have a nice editor which requries HTML pages

bertieb

You should memorise them all and file them in your head.



hehe. A wiki would be nice but like you say, not the easiest to manage. I'm old school, I just have a large list of folders divided into topics and I deposit them in there. I doubt anyone but me would know where to find them mind

I'm watching this one with interest as I'd also like a better (and simple) alternative.

jibbajabba

bertieb wrote:

You should memorise them all and file them in your head.



hehe. A wiki would be nice but like you say, not the easiest to manage. I'm old school, I just have a large list of folders divided into topics and I deposit them in there. I doubt anyone but me would know where to find them mind

I'm watching this one with interest as I'd also like a better (and simple) alternative.

The best solution so far is using a forum

Something like this :

http://i34.tinypic.com/910079.jpg

royal

Bookmarks and Onenote is what I use.

We use a wiki at work to put all our UC tutorials (OCS Voice integrated with Cisco/Etc). But this is more for our custom guides rather than existing Technical Articles. If I want to be able to refer to an entire article, this is when I usually bookmark it and use subfolders within my bookmarks. When I only want a small piece of information, I will copy the snippet and put in Onenote. Has worked well for me so far.

remyforbes777

I would look into Dokuwiki or a wiki type program.