If you're on a mac you might want to check out Dash http://kapeli.com/dash
Very simliar goal, but offline and instant. After using it for a while it's hard to imagine going back to reading documentation in a web-browser.
Very simliar goal, but offline and instant. After using it for a while it's hard to imagine going back to reading documentation in a web-browser.
Edit: so the old Dash icon was a free icon from http://www.yootheme.com/icons/freebies (the cat one). Recently this icon was replaced with a custom one, which makes sense, except the new Dash icon seems to be heavily "inspired" by somebody else's work -- http://dribbble.com/shots/913643-Chrome-replacement-icon
See the comparison here: http://twitpic.com/ciu8a7
Relevant tweets:
[Dash dev]
https://twitter.com/kapeli/status/328037766166368256
https://twitter.com/kapeli/status/328112260805451779
[Icon designer]
https://twitter.com/wakaba_en/status/328075341618892800
Seems like the Dash dev disagrees with the icon author on where the line between "inspiration" and "plagiarism" lies. It doesn't help that there's a language barrier between the icon author and Dash developer.
Icon designer even proposed an alternative icon:
http://dribbble.com/shots/1046492-Dash-app-replacement-icon
But sadly it seems like this issue hasn't been rectified, but has just been forgotten about. I only found out about this after I'd bought a license; I'm posting this here in case someone else finds it relevant to their purchasing decisions.
At any rate, I wish we non-Mac users had something like Dash.
"Dear The Great Developer of "Dash.app".
I do not ask you anymore. I do not say anything about your icon. It's a waste of time. But I am vindictive. Conversely, I inspired from your icon. This is the way of my protest. This time, you do not plagiarize this my icon, please.
Sayonara さよなら."
It seems the designer is Japanese, so there might be a language/cultural barrier too, but for what it's worth I think I would feel insulted by the Dash developer's reactions too!
Which supports all the documentation Dash does. (The web UI is pretty simple, it was built in an evening).
But both the server side and the web UI are open source.
If you like Dash, you might like Doks
Once the content became something I could use on all my computers and not just the Macs, it became worth the money.
Being cool and cooperative with Zeal earned the Dash developer at least one sale.
It's also a snippet manager, though I don't think many people use it for that purpose.