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Bookmarked explores the art & craft of knowledge bases and customer support while delving into the lives of the people behind them.

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Hear about the companies using HelpDocs to change the world. From medical software to educational robots—they all have a story to tell.

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We delve into the world of knowledge bases and customer support to try to figure out how to create a better support experience for our customers.

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Personal stories, remote work, and a lot of emoji. We open up about what we’re doing and how we’re feeling so you get to know us a little better.

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Read about the latest updates to the HelpDocs platform right here. From features to fixes and everything in between, we'll give you a roundup.

Trying to Be Productive in a Altered World
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Trying to Be Productive in a Altered World

It's tough to comprehend how different our world is now. Social distancing, lockdowns, face masks, and empty offices. Here's how it's affected my mindset.

Is Your Stay for Business or Pleasure?
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Is Your Stay for Business or Pleasure?

Hotel life sounds glamorous but the reality sets in when you live in them full-time running a business. Is it business or pleasure?

January 2020 Product Updates
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January 2020 Product Updates

A new way to update without publishing, a fresh login look, and help avoiding duplication.

Getting Video to Work in our Knowledge Base
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Getting Video to Work in our Knowledge Base

Creating videos for a knowledge base is a unique challenge. Here's how I learnt to make them without professional experience.

Stepping Off the Startup Treadmill
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Stepping Off the Startup Treadmill

Notifications can become overbearing especially for remote teams. Here's my experience learning to take a step back and focus my time more wisely.

What Does it Mean to Deliver Great Support?
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What Does it Mean to Deliver Great Support?

Over the past week how to deliver outstanding support has been on our minds—most likely because we’ve been working on our guide on how to deliver outstanding support šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø

Is Enough Ever Enough?
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Is Enough Ever Enough?

As a remote worker, one of the most difficult things is to allow yourself time away from work tasks. And as Matt found, when you do it’s easy to let self-doubt eek back into the picture. 😬

Reality and Expectations
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Reality and Expectations

Matt hit a PR at the gym today. He broke a mental barrier and hit his heaviest deadlift yet. And he decided to reflect on how it took patience and having realistic expectations.

November 2019 Product Updates
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November 2019 Product Updates

Default permissions, a new place for demos, and endless bug fixes shipped in November. Take a look šŸ‘€

The Game of Show and Tell
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The Game of Show and Tell

The past couple of weeks have been a weird and wild ride. Not least because we’ve finally started venturing into the wonderful world of knowledge base software demos.

On the Perils of Rushing
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On the Perils of Rushing

When Loni was eighteen her roommate convinced her to go to a random meditation session in New York City. šŸ§˜šŸ¼ā€ā™€ļø It sounded New Age and spiritual. Like something you’d expect from Los Angeles. Nonetheless she was skeptical.

October 2019 Product Updates
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October 2019 Product Updates

This month we focused on making things faster and more efficient. We shipped a change to the way we serve assets, a brand new marketing site, and a bunch of tweaks and fixes. šŸ¦„āœØ Take a look šŸ‘€

Reassessing Opinions
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Reassessing Opinions

Strong opinions, loosely held is a statement that sticks at the core of the HelpDocs culture. We’re all super opinionated. But it’s rare for us to so vehemently protest or refuse to yield on something when presented with a better option.

125 Blog Header Images and Counting
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125 Blog Header Images and Counting

Here's a story about the headers behind the blog posts on the HelpDocs blog.

Frustrated Tones and Reflections
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Frustrated Tones and Reflections

A few days ago, an applicant for one of the Customer Education roles commented about our blog. It’s not uncommon. Often people wanna be seen as having done their research. And I do really appreciate any feedback we get when it comes to our posts. But this time it

September 2019 Product Updates Post
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September 2019 Product Updates Post

A revamped settings menu, v4 Bars custom theme, improved tagging, and more.

Incrementally Changing
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Incrementally Changing

There’s a lot to be said for making huge, swathing changes. Just getting stuff done. Finished. It’s a little like quickly peeling a bandaid. In that doing it fast gets it out of the way. Ripping away a bandaid limits the longevity of the immediate pain. And it

The Hard Reality of Letting Go
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The Hard Reality of Letting Go

Sometimes you’ve just gotta let go. 32 years of life and that’s my incredibly deep and profound observation on this uncharacteristically mild September morning. It’s true though. ClichĆ©, sure. But true nonetheless. šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø For me this groundbreaking realisation came last week while chatting with the rest of the

Has Staying Silent Ever Helped Anyone?
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Has Staying Silent Ever Helped Anyone?

Making over-communication a priority is probably one of the most critical aspects of our culture. It’s certainly something I’d recommend to anyone building a remote team. Since for us, it makes things easier. Kept us all on the same page. And meant we’ve grown closer and stronger

Content for Contents Sake?
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Content for Contents Sake?

Does everything need a strategy and a purpose? I’m not so sure. šŸ¤” The past couple of days I’ve been thinking about this more and more. It’s as a result of seeing a post from a marketing influencer who lamented about companies who don’t have a strategy

A Change is as Good as a Rest
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A Change is as Good as a Rest

They say a Change is as good as a rest. After we shipped such a massive overhaul of the software a couple of weeks ago—and with more changes on the horizon šŸ˜ā€”I can’t help but think about how true this is. Or indeed if it’s true at

August 2019 Product Updates Post
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August 2019 Product Updates Post

An overhauled content list, super easy content reordering, smarter content filtering, and a better text editor.

Should You Avoid Becoming the Crutch?
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Should You Avoid Becoming the Crutch?

Since I started taking on the support tickets at HelpDocs, there’s been one thing that always stumps me. Ok fine! There’s more than one thing. But of the many parts of my day-to-day life that stump me most, knowing where to draw the line with things that aren’

Is This Thing On?
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Is This Thing On?

A couple of weeks ago we shipped one of the most significant updates to HelpDocs since the software was but a glint in Jake and Jarratt’s eyes. And we barely mentioned it. I mean we sent out an Intercom broadcast message and an email to our users/subscribers. I

The Constant Gut Feel
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The Constant Gut Feel

You’d think by now I’d have learnt to take care of the housekeeping before I embark on some crazy new adventure. I’m not talking about washing my gym shorts or cooking a delicious meal. I mean the week-to-week and month-to-month deliverables that I consider the absolute bare

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