I use Obsidian for my own notes that only live on my machine, then they bake there for a while until they get refined enough to turn it into something that others can read in which case it gets published within Confluence.
Personally I'd rather see a knowledge base that is in pure Markdown, perhaps a static site that auto-publishes on push to a specific repo. I just like the idea of being in control of the text, plus it means you can write these docs in the comfort of your editor instead of using a slow web UI. Right now I end up writing it offline and copy / pasting it along with formatting it in Confluence afterwards, it feels like a little wasted effort.
We try to reserve these types of docs to be guides, it's more like blog posts not so much a detailed instruction list on how to use some library or app. This way they don't really get outdated because a library or step changed.
I'm a big fan of never deleting guides and notes though, for the not needed ones I'd still keep them around but maybe move them into an archive section. Really, a static site generator has all of the tools to make a really nice system for this. You could also spend a day to make a little back-end to offer full text search too.
Personally I'd rather see a knowledge base that is in pure Markdown, perhaps a static site that auto-publishes on push to a specific repo. I just like the idea of being in control of the text, plus it means you can write these docs in the comfort of your editor instead of using a slow web UI. Right now I end up writing it offline and copy / pasting it along with formatting it in Confluence afterwards, it feels like a little wasted effort.
We try to reserve these types of docs to be guides, it's more like blog posts not so much a detailed instruction list on how to use some library or app. This way they don't really get outdated because a library or step changed.
I'm a big fan of never deleting guides and notes though, for the not needed ones I'd still keep them around but maybe move them into an archive section. Really, a static site generator has all of the tools to make a really nice system for this. You could also spend a day to make a little back-end to offer full text search too.