Support Smarter How to Successfully Onboard Technical Writers for Your Knowledge Base The road to successfully onboarding a technical writer can be challenging—especially if you're not one yourself. Here are some tips on why and how to make it happen.
Announcements November 2023 Product Updates We released a new Leaderboard feature this month, added more customization options, and provided greater export control.
Support Smarter The Surprising Upsides of a Customer Support Spam Incident HelpDocs' support email account was eerily quiet for a whole week. Until I found out that our customers' emails had been in the spam folder. Here's the lessons I learned.
Knowledge Bases Choosing the Right Approach: Embedding, Linking, or Widgetizing Your Knowledge Base Content within Your App You've created your Knowledge Base but the uptake is lagging behind. Find out three different ways to boost adoption and create help everyone uses.
Support Smarter Why We're Switching from GIFs to Video Inside Our Knowledge Base Articles You might notice a few more videos if you've looked at our Knowledge Base recently. Here's why we're switching from GIFs to video and the process involved.
Knowledge Bases Going With the Flow: Leveraging Documentation to Speed Up Customer Support Ticket Replies Discover how to reduce customer ticket reply time by leveraging your company Knowledge Base. Learn best practices for faster issue resolution times.
Knowledge Bases The Ultimate Guide to Creating Your First Knowledge Base Article Creating your first Knowledge Base article can feel like a giant hurdle. Have no fear—we're here to help you get started. Read on to learn how to go from zero to KB hero.
Knowledge Bases Optimizing Your Knowledge Base Search Discover tips for optimizing Knowledge Base searches. Learn how categorizing a Knowledge Base makes search easier and avoid common issues with proper optimization.
Knowledge Bases The Art of Managing Freelance Technical Writers for Your Knowledge Base Hiring in-house technical writers can be tough, so why not support freelancers? Here's how to loop in experts to ensure your Knowledge Base shines.
Knowledge Bases Creating Calm & Consistency With a Knowledge Base Style Guide Learn why carving out time to create a style guide for your Knowledge Base can help you maintain a consistent, on-brand, helpful set of guides for your users.
Announcements June 2023 Product Updates Text editor improvements and a new billing portal are just some improvements this June. Read the full post to see all the updates.
Backpage A Few Life Lessons Mario Kart Items Taught Me There's something relaxing about taking half an hour to sit down and play a bit of Mario Kart. It occurred to me that the items in the game have some hidden meanings.
Support Smarter How to Create a Seamless External and Internal Knowledge Base Experience Creating a great documentation experience for your customers and team is tricky. Here's our insight into how to make it as simple as possible.
Backpage The Curious Case of CSS Selectors and Our Knowledge Base One of our Knowledge Base articles suddenly surged near the top of a highly sought-after keyword. I wondered—was this a bad thing?
Backpage Finding and Forcing My Passion For Interior Design: Part 1 When we turned up to our villa in the Portuguese countryside I realised I had some work to do—especially in the interior.
Announcements April 2023 Product Updates This April we've pushed a bunch of updates to HelpDocs including vast Machine Translation improvements, a new Heap integration, Google Analytics 4 support, and much more!
Support Smarter How To Build & Launch Your First Multilingual Knowledge Base Launching a Multilingual Knowledge Base can be daunting. In this guide, you'll find strategies to ensure customers around the world can help themselves.
Backpage How the Flu Made Me Give Up On My Nomadic Lifestyle Travel had been a major part of my life for years. After a horrible episode of flu, I realised what was important while I recovered.
Support Smarter How to Condense Lots of Information in Your Knowledge Base Articles Are your Knowledge Base articles giving a little too much? Condense them down with these top tips so your readers can digest them properly.
Support Smarter GPT-3 for Technical Writers—Friend or Foe? GPT-3 is a tool that's creating a lot of buzz. How can it be used for technical writers and is it a threat we should be worried about?
Support Smarter A Guide to Creating Your First SaaS Knowledge Base Creating your first Knowledge Base for your SaaS company? It can be tricky, but with these tips & tricks you'll be well on your way to creating stellar self-serve support.
Announcements December 2022 Product Updates Puns are in force this holiday season as we wrap up 2022 with our latest product updates. Cheers to that!
Support Smarter Terrible Hospitality Habits to Ignore For Your Customer Support Dirty glasses, missed housekeeping, and hospitality sentences are too common in hotels. Here's what you can avoid in your own customer support to keep customers happy.
Support Smarter Keeping Calm with Customer Support on the Road Baggage drop-off. Patting down. Running to the train. Travel is so stressful it's tough to keep on top of the ticket queue. Here are some tips from a seasoned traveler on how to travel and stop tickets from piling up.
Announcements June 2022 Product Updates We've introduced a bunch of highly requested features this month. A new writer role, two-factor authentication, local backups, and more.