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My goal is to document the issues I'm facing. E.g. I upgrade ruby to 2.7 and something breaks. I document the symptoms, the cause, the solution, add the relevant tags. So that later I could come back and deal with the issue more quickly. And possibly link to it.

I don't consider starting a blog, since I believe that takes more time. I need something more sketchy. Primarily for myself, but it can be public.

Requirements:

  • an easy way to add articles
  • a list of articles ordered by date (in a blog-like manner)
  • some sort of markdown to write the articles
  • tags and probably categories
  • full text-search within a category (or constrained by tags)

Minimalistic (lightweight) interface would be a plus. In terms of page load, amount of javascript needed to render a page.

An online solution is probably preferable, but a self-hosted one would probably also do. Unless I need to run some resource-intensive software like, supposedly, Elasticsearch or some Java software.

Probably something like https://gist.github.com/ but with tags and search capabilities.

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  • jekyllrb.com is a static site generator thhat has built-in blogging capabilities and should be able to do everything (except maybe the full text search). its compatible with github pages if easy hosting is a priority
    – DeveloperACE
    Commented Jan 24, 2021 at 15:08
  • I regret mentioning "knowledge base." In my defense I can only say I didn't know what to expect. That is probably the reason I gave a broader phrasing, to avoid being left with no suggestions. But my priorities are generally, "blog is preferred over wiki, online service over self-hosted solution." I could probably change the question, but that would most likely make the answers less relevant.
    – x-yuri
    Commented Jan 24, 2021 at 16:12
  • if youre looking for an online service blog solution, i'd still say jekyll is a lot closer to "online service" (if you host on github pages) than something "self-hosted" if youre familiar with github. you pretty much put your jekyll site in a github repository and turn on github pages and it hets automatically hosted for you. Theres also a few blogging platforms out there like wordpress that can help provide the "online service + blog" functionality for free as well
    – DeveloperACE
    Commented Jan 24, 2021 at 16:17
  • Well, I suspected you can do that with Jekyll. Another alternative would probably be Vercel. At least it let's one turn their repository into a site. The wiki solutions and Wordpress... they might be good. But for some reason I feel like avoiding them. Let's call it a personal bias. For now I'm experimenting with GitHub Gist. More on it in my other comment.
    – x-yuri
    Commented Jan 24, 2021 at 16:33

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You can try Read the Docs is the more appropriate I've seen for this.

Here you can see their own documentation: https://docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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Seems like a good opportunity for a wiki. It's been a while since I looked into wikis, but when I did, I particularly liked DokuWiki as it was easy to implement and seemed well suited to documentation. It supports blogs via plugins such as blog or blogtng. WikiMatrix is a nice site for comparing wiki options and you may find a better option there.

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  • Do you think it makes sense to run a full-fledged wiki? It appears there's more to search capabilities of GitHub Gist than I thought. And there's also Lapton.
    – x-yuri
    Commented Jan 20, 2021 at 11:58
  • I can’t answer that, but many wikis are quite light weight and easy to use.
    – Eric S
    Commented Jan 20, 2021 at 13:53

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