Documentation tools don’t always offer the best experience. Several traditional wikis are clunky, and the cloud alternatives are pricey. Because of poor user experience and the cost of documentation, I abandoned documentation altogether. What broke the camel’s back was watching documentation become a collection of unfinished pages no one revisited. However, I convinced myself to give documentation another go, and Docmost, the open-source collaborative wiki I turned to, unexpectedly gave a modern, pleasant user experience. I set it up, used it for a while, and documenting finally feels painless and reliable. Writing and organizing knowledge in Docmost A real-time editor designed for collaborative documentation Docmost differs from MediaWiki and several other traditional wikis that rely on rigid formatting rules. It offers an editor that encourages real-time collaboration, similar to modern productivity apps like Notion. As multiple people work on the same page simultaneously, Docmost reflects edits immediately. Docmost avoids edit conflicts that require manual resolution. This gives it a Notion and Google Docs-like feel in practice, where anyone with access rights can use the documents …