Your documentation is still in your Mum’s filing cabinet
It's kind of wild that we're still organising knowledge like it's sitting in a 1970s filing cabinet. People and AI don't think in folders. They find information through search, context and connections.
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Your documentation is still in your Mum’s filing cabinet It’s kind of wild when you stop and think about it. Most documentation is arranged into files, folders and hierarchies. A document goes inside a folder inside another folder and on the surface it’s well tidy. The trouble is that knowledge rarely behaves that way. A component accessibility decision can affect design, engineering, content and customer support. So where do you put the documentation for it? The more complex the subject, the more awkward that choice becomes. The modern desktop was developed at Xerox PARC in the 1970s. Early graphical user interfaces borrowed heavily from physical office concepts like documents, folders and filing systems because they were familiar to office workers.
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