Tech Writer's Guide

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Confluence

Authoring & Help Tools

Atlassian's team workspace and wiki, widely used for internal product documentation, requirements and runbooks.

atlassian.com

Guru

Authoring & Help Tools

An internal knowledge platform that surfaces verified company knowledge inside the tools employees already use.

getguru.com

Rspress

Docs-as-Code Tools

A Rspack-powered static site generator for documentation, supporting MDX content and built-in full-text search.

rspress.dev

AsciiDoc

Docs-as-Code Tools

A plain-text authoring format designed for technical documentation, offering more structure than Markdown while remaining editable in any text editor.

asciidoc.org

Mem

Authoring & Help Tools

An AI note-taking and knowledge tool that organises meeting notes, projects and reference material for a team.

mem.ai

The Not-Boring Tech Writer

Communities & Newsletters

A podcast and community for technical writers, focused on tools, careers and making the work more interesting.

thenotboringtechwriter.com

AFFiNE

Authoring & Help Tools

An open-source knowledge base that combines documents, whiteboards and databases in a single editing surface.

affine.pro

APIMatic

API Documentation Tools

A platform that transforms API descriptions into SDKs, code samples and a hosted developer experience portal.

apimatic.io

Appcues

Authoring & Help Tools

A no-code platform for building in-app onboarding flows, tooltips and announcements without engineering work.

appcues.com

Spectral

API Documentation Tools

An open-source linter for OpenAPI and AsyncAPI descriptions that enforces custom API style guide rules in CI.

stoplight.io

HelpSite

Authoring & Help Tools

A lightweight hosted service for publishing a simple support knowledge base or FAQ site on a custom domain.

helpsite.com

Arcade

Authoring & Help Tools

A platform for building interactive product demos and short product videos from recorded browser sessions.

arcade.software

Pandoc

Docs-as-Code Tools

A universal document converter that translates between dozens of markup and word-processing formats, widely used in documentation build pipelines.

pandoc.org

Eleventy

Docs-as-Code Tools

A JavaScript static site generator that works with many template languages and produces plain HTML output with no client-side framework required.

11ty.dev

Overleaf

Docs-as-Code Tools

A browser-based collaborative LaTeX editor with real-time editing, version history and template libraries for technical and scientific documents.

overleaf.com

HelpDocs

Authoring & Help Tools

A hosted knowledge base tool for customer-facing help centres, with in-app widgets and search analytics.

helpdocs.io

textlint

Docs-as-Code Tools

A pluggable natural-language linter for Markdown and plain text, with a rule ecosystem covering grammar, terminology and formatting conventions.

textlint.github.io

Docs for Developers

Courses & Certifications

A practical book on documentation written by working technical writers, walking through the documentation process from planning to maintenance.

docsfordevelopers.com

Payload

Docs-as-Code Tools

An open-source TypeScript headless CMS and application framework built to run inside a Next.js project.

payloadcms.com

Technical Writing Newsletter

Communities & Newsletters

Wisdom Nwokocha's monthly newsletter of technical writing tips, job openings, events and career advice.

wisdomnwokocha.substack.com

mdBook

Docs-as-Code Tools

A Rust command-line tool that turns a collection of Markdown files into an online book, used for much of the Rust project's own documentation.

rust-lang.github.io

Diátaxis

Communities & Newsletters

A widely adopted framework that divides documentation into tutorials, how-to guides, reference and explanation, with guidance on applying it.

diataxis.fr

Kapa.ai

Authoring & Help Tools

A retrieval service that builds an AI assistant from a company's documentation, support content and code so users can ask questions directly.

kapa.ai

Hoppscotch

API Documentation Tools

A lightweight open-source browser-based API client for testing REST, GraphQL and realtime endpoints.

hoppscotch.io

Inkeep

Authoring & Help Tools

A platform that turns product documentation and support content into an AI search and answering layer for docs sites and support channels.

inkeep.com

Sanity

Docs-as-Code Tools

A headless content platform with a customisable editing environment and APIs, used to manage structured documentation and product content.

sanity.io

Docsy

Docs-as-Code Tools

A Hugo theme built for technical documentation sites, providing navigation, versioning support and a documentation-oriented page layout.

docsy.dev

Doxygen

API Documentation Tools

The long-standing documentation generator for C++, C, Java and other languages, producing reference documentation from annotated source.

doxygen.nl

Front Matter CMS

Docs-as-Code Tools

A headless CMS that runs inside Visual Studio Code, managing Markdown content for static site generators such as Hugo, Jekyll and Astro.

frontmatter.codes

Lunr.js

Docs-as-Code Tools

A small client-side search library that builds a search index in the browser, used by static documentation sites with no search backend.

lunrjs.com

Meilisearch

Docs-as-Code Tools

An open-source search engine written in Rust that offers fast typo-tolerant search and is often used to power documentation site search.

meilisearch.com

OpenApi.tools

API Documentation Tools

An open-source catalogue of tooling for working with OpenAPI, grouped by function such as documentation, validation and code generation.

openapi.tools

Docsify

Docs-as-Code Tools

A documentation site generator that skips the build step entirely, loading and rendering Markdown files in the browser at request time.

docsify.js.org

I Heart Technical Writing

Communities & Newsletters

A blog focused on technical writing tools and practical how-to material for documentation work.

ihearttechnicalwriting.com

OpenAPI Specification

API Documentation Tools

The formal specification document for OpenAPI, defining the standard programming-language-agnostic interface description for HTTP APIs.

spec.openapis.org

alex

Docs-as-Code Tools

A linter that flags insensitive or inconsiderate wording in prose, intended to be run over documentation alongside other style checks.

alexjs.com