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Slab 2.0 β The knowledge base that democratizes knowledge
Slab is the knowledge base entirely focused on just being the very best knowledge base for your entire team. Choose the best tools for the rest of your productivity stack and Slab will integrate with them, including Slack, Asana, GitHub, and dozens more.
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We've been using the product for a long time - highly recommend! Jason and the team are awesome and Slab is simple and easy to use!
Thank you @thejoelau and the Alchemy team for your patronage π We're making both some functional and visual improvements to our search that I'm really excited about so stay tuned!
First congratulations to the entire Slab's crew for this launch. Well done @chengyinliu @jhchen @jesse_chase @sheharyarn @luinlee @marvin_qian @trisha_spesick @rebecca_acree . You have made an incredible job with this new version of the platform.
I have to say that your product is always a good example of "Good Design is Good Business". It's fast, intuitive, and simple to use, and this new version relies on that. My favorite features are the new Comment system and the Box and Dropbox preview.
Well done.
I've been looking at expanding usage of Slab 2.0 for my team at 1stDibs - love it so far. The integrations and embedding are awesome; I find content organization a bit lacking, but am excited for the future of the product.
This seems to be a rather competitive market with many players: Confluence, Google Docs, Paper, Notion, etc. How is Slab different?
Hey @atul_gupte thank you for the question!
Many writing tools are built for a personal or small setting environments so organization, discovery, and search are all afterthoughts. We see a lot of teams have a good authoring experience on those tools but when they add more content and teammates, it's really hard to find anything so all that work writing the content is wasted π
Others tools do have a team audience in mind but they are too just hard to use, either for creation or consumption or both. We're super product focused at Slab to bring an approachable and intuitive product for the whole team, technical or not, and we've seen that be key for getting everyone to participate in documentation and knowledge sharing.
Hey @ameyc, great question!
First, Slab definitely shines in a team setting rather than personal usage since we made a lot of design choices to favor reading and consumption experiences. Even authoring has collaboration in mind, and weβve built realtime collaboration and inline commenting/reactions to support that.
Our search and organization features will come into play for teams with a lot of content. This can be a team with more people, or also a smaller teams with a strong documentation culture, like many remote teams do.
Aside from that, Slab is built for any department and role to use, but weβve found product and engineering teams to be the most picky with their tools so they are often more so appreciate some of the small details we work on in our UI.
Congrats, it seems super intuitive and time-saving with less opened tabs. Maybe you consider integrating email / calendar / LinkedIn.
Thank you for the suggestion @profiroiu_ioan ! What functionality would you want to see with those integrations?
I like what you are doing guys. Is there a way to auto export the content to some repository? Like once a day?
Hey @vlad_korobov π Right now you can do manual exports of all your content but automatic is on our roadmap! For you, would you most prefer it to be emailed, uploaded to your s3/gcs, synced to some github/gitlab repo, hit some webhook endpoint or something else?
I really appreciate all the work and updates you have put into slab. Anyhow, I miss a few features in the editor that are broadly used in other apps:
- preview/display of pdf files
- collapse paragraphs (toggle on/off)
- preview of URLs
Are you going to add such features to the editor to maker slab more convenient to use?
Hey @jheiseapp thank you for the feedback! We're always looking to improve our editing experience and these are mostly on our radar. With the preview of URLs do you mean hovering over any arbitrary link in a post and having some hovercard show a preview of that destination?
@jhchen @jheiseapp I second that. I'm super happy with the app but sometimes miss features I'm used to from Paper, like the aforementioned previews and collapse toggle, better tables or more layout options for images.
Promising product. I've added feedback over the landing page if it helps :)
Congratulations launching V2 on Product Hunt!
Thanks @christian_piponides ! Where did you add feedback? Your link just goes to this page
Hey @jhchen -- congrats on the launch!
My team switched to remote-only this year due to COVID. We now have to write more things down than ever so naturally very curious about Slab. How does Slab help teams like ours build a culture of documentation?
Hey @_lewisf thank you π
First, we built Slab to be super easy to use, technical teammates or not, to remove as much friction as possible to contributing. Our editor makes writing look good by default so people can focus on the content, not fixing each otherβs formatting.
Second, we spent a lot of time on search and discovery so when you write something, your teammates will actually find and get value from it β promoting a virtuous cycle of actually wanting to keep content up to date and contribute mote. We've seen a lot of success here from users, especially with teams when leaders start the flywheel.
Lastly, our new Library https://slab.com/library/ is also a great place to look for inspiration - comment / upvote on categories of additional examples or templates youβd like to see!
Any plans to allow public access to documentation created using Slab? Public access as in an open link, no need to login to view the documentation.
Hey @jimmy_wang_ thanks for asking - actually individual posts can be made public! Details here https://help.slab.com/en/article... but actually we have an upcoming update to make this even better and easier - stay tuned π
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