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Suggestion for Documentation of Work

Can someone suggest an attractive, stream-lined way to document work? I am writing a manual for my position and the usual outline format is not working for me. It's so boring and difficult to read, I think. Is there anything out there, software, template, anything that could make this look organized, intuitive and concise?
Thanks

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Can someone suggest an attractive,...

robin1012;6267 wrote:
Can someone suggest an attractive, stream-lined way to document work? I am writing a manual for my position and the usual outline format is not working for me. It's so boring and difficult to read, I think. Is there anything out there, software, template, anything that could make this look organized, intuitive and concise?
Thanks

(all links point the 43folders wiki)
A lot of people here use something called markdown (it's even the one good ol' Merlin uses). I've been using one called [url=http://wiki.43folders.com/index.php/Aptconvert">aptconvert, mainly because it can be rendered directly into more formats than markdown, even though I'll probably never use most of them. I would give one of the dozen or so programs a shot and see if they work for you.

Another thing we use here at work is a wiki called PmWiki (the address of their site escapes me at the moment). It allows you to quickly make a page and can have multiple people edit it fairly easily. Not sure if your documentation would benefit from having multiple people or is pretty much just your thing.

 
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