Josh Williams

Almanac — Doc Editor & Platform for Async Collaboration

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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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Adam Nathan
Hey there Product Hunt, Adam here, cofounder of Almanac, a documentation platform that's 10x faster than Google Docs to find, use, and improve knowledge you need at work every day. 🚀 We started Almanac because in our careers in tech, we were spending more time building and rebuilding the same systems and processes than doing actual work. While we were stuck with Confluence, our fellow engineers and designers had tools like GitHub and Figma that enabled them to build and collaborate all in one place. We started Almanac to bring Github-like organization to documents for everyone else. 💥 How Almanac works: - Discover mission-critical docs from our free layer of 500+ tools, templates, and guides created by the most talented people in tech. 🌎 - Copy and customize docs in your own workspaces, with version lineage and tight permissions to keep your docs structured and clean over time. 📝 - Collaborate on docs with your team, and publish them so others can build on your work! 📈 And we’re just getting started. Next up: - Figma-esque real-time collaboration - Merge request flows and changelogs a la Github - Group-based sharing and newsfeeds - Syncing and integrations We hope Almanac can open up access to the knowledge you need to be your best self at work. 🙏Thanks again for helping us make Almanac something great—we look forward to hearing from you! Warmly, Adam & the Almanac Team
Andrew Cuthbert
@adam_nathan1 Good luck Adam! Will try it out properly when I get a team together. Like the approach!
Andrew Lenehan
@adam_nathan1 This is incredible!! Would love to hear more about how y'all got started and how you're building out this knowledge base!
Jeremy Pepper
@adam_nathan1 Will it be customizable enough to do private knowledge base documents? KB is a tough space, but like the idea.
Josh Williams
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! 👉
Camille Ricketts
I’ve observed a lot of founders and a lot of content operations. Almanac combines the best of both. Definitely check it out. Congrats to the team!
Adam Nathan
@camille_ricketts1 thanks for the kind words!
Malinda Coler
@camille_ricketts1 Thanks, Camille! We have been collaborating with some of the most talented people in the industry and are so honored to share their wisdom and incredible insights!
Katy Lankester
Almanac just makes it easier to be productive. It cuts down on all the time spent defining a way to tackle a problem, so I can actually just tackle it, and crush it.
Adam Nathan
@katy_l Hope you crush it every day using Almanac!
Rishabh Dev (Rish)
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.
Adam Nathan
@reachrishabh Rishabh excited to have you using the product and hope it saves you times and helps you do work better!
Malinda Coler
@reachrishabh This is so true! You are one of our most prolific Contributors and we are so grateful for all of your insight.
Taylor Thompson
@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/...!
Mike Kohn
I was so excited to hear about Almanac! Having joined an early-stage and been unsure where to start, I know that the ability to tap into a resource like this would have been amazing. There's a ton of great content already that can help organizations of all sizes to build, grow, scale, and improve. Thrilled to have had the chance to contribute and looking forward to seeing more from here!
Taylor Thompson
@mike_kohn Thank so much, Mike! Let us know if you'd like to see any particular templates in the future, and we can focus on sourcing them.
Kirk Warner
@mike_kohn Thanks Mike! We've very much enjoyed collaborating with you and look forward to working together on future articles and templates!
Adam Nathan
@mike_kohn We love your guide to hiring a head of people—I actually used it myself the other day! Thanks for being such an amazing contributor. We hope to work with you more in the future. https://askalmanac.com/articles/...
Bill Liao ☯
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.
Adam Nathan
@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!
Malinda Coler
@liaonet Thank you, Bill! We're so fortunate to have all of your insight. https://askalmanac.com/articles/...
John Vars
Nice work! This looks really impressive. I am sure I will be coming back to Almanac often.
Adam Nathan
@johnv thanks so much! Would love your product feedback so we can make it great for you.
Taylor Thompson
@johnv Thanks, John! Let us know if there are any particular challenges you need help with / templates we can source for you!
Camille Ricketts
I love how this team has focused on providing proven tactics, templates and frameworks - not just high level advice.
Adam Nathan
@camille_ricketts1 where the rubber hits the road!
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!
Adam Nathan
@kevrmoore Thanks Kevin!
Reini Chipman
Finally - a tool that enables EVERYONE to access key business information and templates. Now we can stop wasting time reinventing the wheels and start getting to the most important and high value work faster! Thanks Almanac Team!
Adam Nathan
@reini_chipman thanks for the kind words Reini!
Ellen Choi
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?
Malinda Coler
@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.
Ellen Choi
@malinda_coler1 got it, thanks for the clarification. My confusion was from the PH landing page, the company homepage makes it more clear.
Angela Oh
I think this platform is very professional as it brings together a pool of subject matter experts to share their invaluable knowledge with proven examples, templates and tools.
Adam Nathan
@angela_oh Thanks Angela!
Malinda Coler
@angela_oh Hi Angela! Much appreciated, and thank you for all of your great insight on managing tough customer conversations: https://askalmanac.com/articles/...
Kirk Warner
@angela_oh Awesome comment, Angela! Thanks so much for your valuable work with us, recently and in the future!
Michael Brooks Jr.
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 🌳
Taylor Thompson
@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.
Adam Nathan
@michaelbrooksjr thanks for the kind words! We hope you enjoy the beautiful UX as well
Frank Heijdenrijk
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!
Adam Nathan
@fheijdenrijk thanks so much for the kind words!
Malinda Coler
@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/...
Gina Bartlett
As a project manager I can't wait to get this set up across the company I am currently working with, as a way to get everyone on the same page! Great job Almanac 👍🏻
Adam Nathan
@gina_bartlett Thanks for the kind words—would love to hear how you're using Almanac in action!
Jared Angaza
This is such a beautiful platform! As an entrepreuenr, and coach to other enterpreneurs, I see the tremendous benefit this affords us. And beyond that, your contribution to democratizing access to education helps provide the social foundation for expanding the development of the Collaborative Commons and a Shared Economy. Your mission to ensure “no one is limited by knowledge in pursuit of their potential” is so crucial to the vitality of our society. Thank you for having the courage and determination to make this come to life!
Taylor Thompson
@jared_angaza Jared, thanks so much! We're thrilled to get this out there, and are really excited to build even more tools to help people learn by doing. Here's an example of what we want to do for every function: https://askalmanac.com/articles/...
Nick Woods
Awesome work! Looks great 👍
Rajiv Ayyangar
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!
Malinda Coler
@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.
Taylor Thompson
@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.
Olivier Kamanda
Love this idea and the UX.
Adam Nathan
@olivier_kamanda Thanks Olivier! Hopefully it helps save some time for you and help you do work a little better. :)