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by reilly3000 1568 days ago
Having been on a bit if a documentation spree of late, this is extremely relevant and I’m glad to see it. Pages are a constant distraction to composing content. I’m always trying to format and write my ways towards clean page breaks. I’ll get it right across a multi-page doc, then need to add another piece of important info to the first page and cause cascading chaos below. I’ve tried to get better at using page breaks, but they have their own quirks and aren’t really visible nor intuitive in the typical editing flow.

Confluence is among the pageless-natives, but their PDF export looks horrible and there’s no way to fix that as a user. I reach for it when I need to, but I almost always use https://docs.new when I’m ready to start capturing an idea or notes. So I’m happy to see Google Docs offer pageless and their recent additions of slash commands. I’d rather publish more Docs and less Confluence content. Having both at a large company does create a fair measure of bifurcation but neither seems to be able to replace the other.