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Yeah, I keep thinking that CHM was the peak format for offline docs. Today we have Kiwix [0] and Dash/Zeal [1] – both amazing projects, but somehow they feel mo
by notpushkin 2y ago
Yeah, I keep thinking that CHM was the peak format for offline docs. Today we have Kiwix [0] and Dash/Zeal [1] – both amazing projects, but somehow they feel more complex, and the formats they use aren’t as ubiquitous.
[0]: https://kiwix.org/en/ https://kiwix.org/en/
[1]: https://kapeli.com/dash https://kapeli.com/dash for macOS, https://zealdocs.org/ https://zealdocs.org/ for others
- ndileas 2y agoThe other day I crammed some awful internal docs into zeal. It was a fun time, good format -- was able to reverse engineer it without looking at the specs in an hour or so. I wanted to be able to look at those docs having to remember exactly where they were every time.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoIs there a term for the situation that, when there's a dozen different products competing in the same space, there may as well be none?
- notpushkin 2y agoI don’t think so, but there is a number. [927] [927]: https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
- sudahtigabulan 2y agoChoice paralysis, choice overload, analysis paralysis.