Ask HN: How do people keep track of organizational knowledge?
6 pointsby kadhirvelm2 hours ago5 comments
  • andyjohnson026 minutes ago
    > How do people keep track of organizational knowledge?

    In my experience:

    1. Well meaning people try to build wikis/confluences/whatever that turn into backwaters of slowly rotting stuff

    2. Beyond a certain extent that they can hold in their heads, most other people give up.

    3. Some people hoard knowledge and use it for personal advantage.

    I dont know what the solution is. Maybe an ai that reads every chat and email and commit - and builds some kind of browsable, queryable, executable knowledge trove.

    • kadhirvelma minute ago
      Do you think having an AI do that is 1) possible and 2) people will like that? Seems really invasive, no?
  • Tadacean hour ago
    We still make sure to maintain a healthy directory and "backlinks". And as soon as new updates are in, we have someone on the team dedicated to clarifying changes and updating the Wiki - Confluence pages, Notion, which are adequately linked to tickets and shared drives where necessary.

    This way, new and updated context is not lost on the next user.

  • 1337h4xx2 hours ago
    Just do what AI does to manage context: write docs, regression tests, content index, tools/skills, and CLAUDE.md
  • midzer2 hours ago
    I organize myself in a some_project/ directory.
  • toomuchtodo2 hours ago
    Confluence, Notion, Wikis, etc.
    • kadhirvelm2 hours ago
      Do you all rely on people writing things down as they go? or do you have some automated system?
      • toomuchtodo2 hours ago
        People. Time is carved out for both documentation and its review, like a PR review. Otherwise, how would you trust what is being documented? A human must remain in the loop if accuracy is a component of success criteria for organization documentation. I say this familiar with Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern.