Obsidian alternative for documentation of business processes

[skaeser]

What I’m trying to do

Seeking Advice for Managing Business Processes in a More Interlinked Format (Moving from Word to a More Dynamic Tool)

Hi everyone,

I’ve been using Obsidian for personal knowledge management, and it’s been fantastic for interlinking ideas and navigating between connected concepts.

I’m trying to use the same principles and document the processes of my small business ( 3 people) and have the information accessible for everyone.

For usability purposes I have know written 60 pages in word documenting all our processes, roles, and products.

I have used the link feature of word to link within the document and out to our internet plattforms and services. I have interlinked many ideas ( each paragraph has 3-4 links) to achieve a similar interconnectedness as Obisidian.

The biggest issue I’m facing is that navigating between related topics (processes, roles, products, etc.) in Word on Mac is not smooth. You can jump onto a link but not back. Therefor using the document is a bit tedious.

Now I am looking for a tool or a plattform where I could transfer all this information, maintain the interlinking between different topics, and make it accessible to everyone in the company. Ideally, the tool would:

• Allow easy linking between different concepts (like Obsidian’s double bracket linking)

• Be user-friendly for my team to navigate and update

• Make it easy to jump between processes, roles, and other interconnected topics

• Possibly be hosted online so it’s accessible to everyone

Does anyone have experience moving business documentation to a platform that supports this kind of structured interlinking, or could you recommend a tool that could work well for this?

Thanks in advance for your insights!

Things I have tried

[deezy]

Possibly be hosted online so it’s accessible to everyone

Up until this point, Obsidian ( the desktop application ) hits every checkbox. If you want this documentation accessible online via a web browser, you’d need to use Obsidian Publish or something like a static site generator ( Quartz, Hugo, Jekyll, Pelican, etc ).

This is also kind of a textbook use-case for actual dedicated wiki software. I have heard that TiddlyWiki is easy to self-host and use, or you could use Confluence or MediaWiki. You could author the documentation in Obsidian and depending on which wiki software you’re using, you might be able to copy and paste it directly into the wiki: MediaWiki uses the same [[link]] syntax as Obsidian ( it was the direct inspiration for the syntax ), so that may be worth considering.