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Almanac — Doc Editor & Platform for Async Collaboration
Free yourself from endless meetings with async collaboration. Request reviews, create linked versions, assign tasks, and collaborate asynchronously. All in your doc editor.
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Kevin Moore
As software eats the world, the world needs an open playbook for digital businesses. Like Github for non-technical knowledge. Brilliant concept, good luck Almanac!
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Congrats to the Almanac team! I'm so glad something like this exists 🙌
It's impressive to see all of the top-tier content on the platform (500+ free tools already!!). Access to high-quality knowledge, all in one place, is a game-changer for anyone trying to level up at their job.
Looking forward to seeing them continue to grow 🌳
@michaelbrooksjr Thank you Michael! We're excited to share the product, and the free tools! Now that we're launched, we're focused on improving our existing tools and adding new ones every day.
@michaelbrooksjr thanks for the kind words! We hope you enjoy the beautiful UX as well
Looks very slick! A little confused on the positioning - is this a public content site (more in Holloway style) or intended to replace Confluent or private wiki systems for internal teams?
@lnchoi Hi Ellen! Love this question. It's both. We're building a public knowledge base - imagine if every company's wiki was public and we could all pull the docs that we need and start customizing them for our own purposes? No one would ever have to start from scratch again. Anyone can access the content, and companies who license it as a Confluence replacement can seamlessly copy docs from the Almanac core into their own wiki.
@malinda_coler1 got it, thanks for the clarification. My confusion was from the PH landing page, the company homepage makes it more clear.
@way2outsource Thanks! Let us know if there are any use cases you have (or would like)?
Very well designed. Easy to quickly parse article titles to figure out which ones are relevant, and the articles are quick reads themselves with actual tactical advice. Great job!
Are you going to do anything to help ensure that the authorship of Almanac doesn't resemble Wikipedia's (predominantly white and male) so that it more accurately represents diverse viewpoints and isn't amplifying the voices of a few?
@_juliedkim Hi Julie, thank you so much for asking. I'm Malinda, Cofounder and Head of Contributors. This is really important to us, and you can hold me personally accountable for building a diverse community (please do, it takes a village). As you point out, there is a predominant voice in tech, and we could easily create another community of the same voices if we don't think about it. It's not enough to simply care anymore (it never was); *companies must proactively create systems that build towards diversity*, and must have someone in leadership driving the effort. At Almanac, we aggressively pursue channels to include diverse voices, even when it would be so much easier to rely on the more predominant culture. I'll reach out to you to speak more about our approach, but want to be very transparent because I take this seriously. I track stats and design processes to make sure we don't create another uniform network. I think about this everyday, and would love to learn from you or others. To speak directly to your concern, right now our network of Contributors is 49% female and 51% male; 63% white, and 36% white male.
I had the pleasure to work with the Almanac team a few months ago while they were building the platform.
The team, along with the platform, is absolutely fantastic. They gathered experts for every important topic that companies struggle with to produce extremely valuable content.
Well done, Almanac team!
@fheijdenrijk Thank you, Frank! You have been a huge part of this. Everyone should read your article on how to create landing pages: https://askalmanac.com/articles/...
The work put in to making top content consistently accessible is really brilliant and the resulting structure is exceptionally easy to use and learn from.
@liaonet Thanks Bill! Hopefully we can save you and your team lots of time in the future by putting your knowledge and best practices in one place!
@liaonet Thank you, Bill! We're so fortunate to have all of your insight. https://askalmanac.com/articles/...
The most useful product for a company of any scale and by category. It would be better if there is a possibility to filter by region or Country as certain documents change in their structure or content and also it would be more super if the localization of docs is possible like changing the language etc..
@hai_le1 Thank you! Let us know if you'd like to see particular templates or guides in the future?
Very cool way of getting over the cold-start problem of company wikis! I'm curious to see where this shared institutional knowledge takes you!
@rajiv_ayyangar Yes! That is one of the big reasons why I wanted to build it. I've launched 4 wikis in my career and will never have to do it from scratch again. Let me know if you have any documentation requests. We're reprioritizing our topics log later this week to include user feedback from the launch.
@rajiv_ayyangar Thanks, Rajiv! That's exactly our vision for the product: we think about every time we have to build a process or document that hundreds of companies have done before (a product launch plan, how to launch on PH, how to do PR outreach to journalists, a checklist for technical SEO – all things our team has done in the past week!). Our goal is for everyone to be able to start from a great template, used in a relevant company, instead of a cold start.
I've always focused on Actionable process documentation and putting together templates for growth and other key activities for me and my clients.
Almanac does exactly that - at a much larger scale on a level that can impact our entire ecosystem. It provides a database of knowledge in a structure that makes it easy to consume and act on.
I'm proud and very excited to be part of this journey with Almanac. I've shared my growth experience on Almanac among various other experts helping build this amazing knowledge database.
@reachrishabh Rishabh excited to have you using the product and hope it saves you times and helps you do work better!
@reachrishabh This is so true! You are one of our most prolific Contributors and we are so grateful for all of your insight.
@reachrishabh It's been great to have you on the product. I really love your article on how to reactivate customers with email: https://askalmanac.com/articles/...!
@olivier_kamanda Thanks Olivier! Hopefully it helps save some time for you and help you do work a little better. :)
Finally something to help us organize for all of our startups for startups that start up!
Great effort and great resource.
The number refers to how many people included that resource in their company's "playbook"? If yes, can you include some more refined metrics than frequency? Ideally some that take the relationships between sources and people into account by making use of graph theory?
@bwb Thanks Ben! If you have any suggestions or requests for playbooks or templates that'd be useful, please let us know!
The content is top-notch, which is attractive. From a pure feature/cost standpoint, I have questions.
The features (content pubs, public, searchable, voteable, rankable) are not different from Confluence. Yet $10/user/mo to have the priv. to publish on Almanac. It seems like a duplicate cost, for the right to give away docs & learning topics that are normally paid content for internal training.
Is it fair to say the value is more in professional-brand development for the contributors? (who would not otherwise monetize their efforts)
((sorry if this seems like an aggressive question for a public forum. I thought lots about taking the edge off, while still asking the question directly))
As an avid fan of collaborative products like Figma, Airtable, and Github, it’s SUPER COOL to see the same kind of tools launch for business knowledge and professional development.
Almanac is already loaded with hundreds of primo articles covering topics like product management, design, marketing, recruiting, and more. Their tools and templates make it easy to create, copy, and curate documents in your own workspace. 👨🍳👌
If you’re looking to up your game, there’s a ton of information already packed in here, and with today’s launch you can even contribute too. Click on over! 👉