[musicale]

> Good documentation is a tell-tale sign of a great product and a company that puts users first

(Relevant because DF is an Apple-focused blog): I wish Apple would go back to writing good documentation. Developer documentation in particular seems to have decayed.

[al_borland]

I was trying to do something in Apple Shortcuts and tried searching the web for documentation, as I usually do. I came up empty and was very frustrated. AI also seemed of little help due to the lack of accessible web documentation to train on.

Then, almost out of desperation, I went to the Help menu and find pretty rich documentation. Having this documentation built into the app used to be the norm, but I think most users aren’t in the habit of looking there.

While this doesn’t solve all of Apple’s documentation problems, I figured it’s worth mentioning for anyone who may have been ignoring the Help menu with the idea that everything is online.

[musicale]

Good point - the Mac User Guide is also accessible from the Finder's Help menu.

Though I think there should be an option to download the whole thing locally so that it could work offline.