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Try https://www.notion.so! It combines docs, wikis, and todos; it's collaborative, and it's beautifully designed. It's perfect for building knowledge bases for teams.

(Disclaimer / I worked there in the past)

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At a glance, it looks like a product that's stored on the company's servers. Why would any company, startup or dinosaur, want to put their knowledge base and documentation in the hand of a new pretty and fancy product that might fold next month?

There's no Linux download, no github, and especially, no server - I stay away from products like that, sorry.

> Why would any company

Almost every company uses external services for this sort of thing right now. Google Drive, Confluence, whatever. Notion allows you to export to PDF/Markdown as well.

https://www.notion.so/Export-to-PDF-or-markdown-5406d98f17d2...

Confluence and a lot of other products allow the company to install the product on their company server. Not on the server of some "startup". A lot of industries does not allow you to just store think on Google Drive, think any industry working with sensitive information like healthcare and the defense industry.

Whilst integration with existing/other tools would be a massive insurance feature and a pretty nice feature all the same, I think it's a bit unfair to rule it out of hand like that. Could it work for a big corporate that would generate a load of docs/need to import from whatever they have today? Maybe not. Could it work for a brand new 1-2 person band with a few bits and pieces? Probably.

You can export it as a HTML document, PDF or Markdown and do what ever you want with it.

So I would have to edit my documentation in this app, export to HTML and rsync the files to a web host on our intranet to share it? I'll stick with Mediawiki.

I can second the recommendation of notion. It's worked very well for my organization / productivity needs.

However, I work at a large company that has adopted Confluence, so I'm stuck with that for organizational knowledge.

Based on a quick look, notion appears to be a great fit for what I'm looking for.

The lack of an Android client might be a blocker, although according to their Twitter, one is only weeks away.

I second this. While it doesn't fit my own workflow (I am a heavy workflowy user). I think when you have to find a middle ground and a tool that everyone will have some pleasure using, Notion is a better one than most.

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