Creating Your Doc
Creating Your Doc

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The first thing you should do when designing a doc is to write out the purpose.

Who will your doc’s audience be?

What are the key takeaways for anyone visiting this doc?

Is this a standalone doc, or do you want to point to other resources?

Your Feedback

Action

Things to do or include

Who is helping?

Done

Notes

Create the doc’s intro page

The doc’s audience (which team or people)

The purpose of the doc

What the doc solves / can do

Expectations of colleagues arriving in the doc for the first time

What the doc cannot do (and potentially link or direct to where to go)

How to navigate the doc (include links to sections)

When the doc was last updated

Who is responsible for the upkeep of the doc

Where to go with questions or feedback

Create a “Questions & Feedback” section

Create a page called “Questions & Feedback” where you can write down questions as you have them. These can be questions for colleagues or for Coda.

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