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Diátaxis

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Diátaxis is a widely-adopted, pragmatic and systematic approach to thinking about and creating documentation.

A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring. Diátaxis is a way of thinking about and doing documentation. It prescribes approaches to content, architecture and form that emerge from a systematic approach to understanding the needs of documentation users. Diátaxis identifies four distinct needs, and four corresponding forms of documentation - tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference and explanation. It places them in a systematic relationship, and proposes that documentation should itself be organised around the structures of those needs. Diátaxis solves problems…

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