How to Keep Documentation Up to Date
Documentation decays fastest where the product moves fastest. Tie review to your release cadence rather than to a calendar reminder nobody honours.
Keeping documentation current
Documentation decays silently. How to notice, what to fix first, and what to delete.
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The Documentation Upkeep Handbook
All 5 guides on keeping documentation current in a single PDF, plus a one-page checklist to print and a short opener on which three things matter most. Formatted to read on screen or on paper.
How to Tell Which Articles Are Out of Date
Six signals that identify stale articles without reading them, ranked by how much evidence each one actually gives you.
How to Audit a Help Centre You Inherited
Someone left, and now a few hundred articles are yours. A one-week audit that ends with a decision against every page rather than a reading list.
How to Delete a Help Article Without Breaking Links
Deleting the article is the quick part. The work is finding everything that points at it and giving each of those readers somewhere to land.
How to Version Documentation Across Releases
Most products need release notes, not versioned documentation. Here is how to tell which you are, and how to build the version tree if you genuinely need one.
Stop doing it by hand
Knowing which articles went stale is the hard part. SupportPages watches merged pull requests and puts the suspect ones in front of you.
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