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by theNJR 2149 days ago
Lots of comments on 1,000+ people teams.

What about sub 100?

We are fully distributed. Lots of Slack and Zoom. Trying to create a central source of truth in Notion but that feels very static.

Any smaller teams using this?

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Any wiki software suffers from the problem that only a small percentage of the company uses it. It's essentially a tax on the most productive people. If someone asks you for the same thing 8x, you will write it down and share it via a wiki.

I've spend years trying to solve the problem - how do you get the average person writing more at work? What I've come up with resembles a company "journal", but helps you automate any routine communication or update (daily standup, weekly update, retros, etc).

Would love any/all feedback on the idea, here's the website (https://www.friday.app/). You can use it as an individual, team, or with the entire org.

> how do you get the average person writing more at work?

Some people have many answers, but other people have many questions. So I think encouraging people to ask more (even stupid) questions might be a way to get the discussion going.

Plug: we built Papyrs (https://papyrs.com) for this.

Its pages can be typical wiki-docs but also things like internal news posts or discussions, and is organized into subsites for different teams/projects.

We're 70+, we created our own version of P2 (H2, react front-end) and have at about 50 instances (split by theme/project).

At this point though, I think Notion may present a better solution going forward.