GitBook satisfies the most primitive needs of document creators and readers, allowing creators to focus on creation and readers to focus on reading.

But GitBook is slow for Chinese users, who have to pay in U.S. dollars and attach credit cards to experience more features.

Online about the “domestic version of GitBook” this keyword search a lot, we must have been looking forward to domestic, can produce a similar online document creation tool with GitBook. I’ve been struggling with this problem until I came across an online document and knowledge base creation tool -Baklib!

Baklib domestic edition of GitBook

Baklib is an online help document and knowledge base creation tool based on Web applications. At the beginning, I was always curious as a domestic product why a foreign name. I had to listen to the explanation.

Bak: Indicates the backup file. Lib: The library. “Back up the knowledge and display it like a library”, but I still feel strange why not take a Chinese name. Put the name aside for a moment and get a deep understanding of the advantages and practical application effects of this product.

Baklib is great for companies/teams to create online product manuals, FAQs, help centers, knowledge bases, and employee training manuals that can be edited and updated at any time. Internal staff can have a clearer understanding of the product, and external users can have a faster and convenient understanding of the product before and after sales.

The reason why Baklib is the domestic version of GitBook is that Baklib is very similar to GitBook in terms of operation habits and principles. The front and back end are separated, and the back end adds content and the front end displays it. Support independent domain name addition, theme style modification, team collaboration…

After all, Baklib is an online document product developed for Chinese people, which is more in line with our habits.

How to create a great online document using Baklib

Before we do that, online documents are divided into requirements and help documents. Requirement documents should be made to ensure the steady implementation of the development work when the product is approved. Help documents should be set up after the product is launched to facilitate users to understand the product and use rules, which play an important role in the later operation of the product.

Two online document styles made using Baklib (a homegrown GitBook) are shown below, and the process is the same.

1. Open Baklib and create an online document

Baklib is an online documentation and knowledge base tool based on Web applications. Login official website can be used, temporarily did not find the client and APP. Use the same path as GitBook!

Logging in and registering is too easy, so I’ll skip it here. Focus on the process of creating an online document.

  • Choose the scenario you want to create (nothing practical, just to show you how Baklib works, it doesn’t matter which one you choose)

  • Choose a theme style for your online documentation site (don’t get too tangled up and change it in the background)

  • Fill in the name of the online document I site, the domain name visited, and the color of the currently selected theme (this information can be changed in the background).

2, add online documentation site content

Also consistent with GitBook, the release and edit versions of Baklib are separated. Users create content in the edit version (console) and see what the release version (front end) looks like using the content preview button.

The entire site and individual content/columns can be previewed by clicking. Do as write as view!

The content of this online document tool is divided into columns and articles, where articles need to be stored in columns (include relationships – folders are the same as files).

Support the creation of multi-level columns, in addition to support the traditional rich text editing function in content editing (bold, title, link, image..) Video and file uploads are also supported, and Markdown syntax is added to the editor. Meet the editing habits of more users.

3. Style your online document site

Unlike GitBook, where Bakib can easily switch the styles of online document sites, GitBook can simply change the style of the presentation, which is not friendly for online document heavy presentation products. Baklib supports 15 themes with customizable headers and footers (free toggle).

Enter the console and click the Settings button on the left to set the basic information, theme style, domain name, backup information and delete site of the online document site. Remember to click save after modification.

Basic information: You can modify the site name, logo, and icon of an online document

Theme style: you can modify the online document site display theme style (there are 15 themes to choose from), theme display color, theme PC and mobile display big picture, slogan…

Domain name: because it is a Web application to access the front display interface of online document site, you need to access by domain name (don’t worry about security can set access permissions of the crowd), you can modify the free secondary domain name and bind independent domain name.

Site content backup: data only in your own hands can be assured, this tool supports online document site data download to the local

4. Plug-in functions

Baklib is SaaS software, so many features come in the form of plug-ins that users can activate on demand. It now includes plug-ins for team collaboration, site access, visitor statistics, navigation menus, full text retrieval, APIS, article feedback… Here I choose a few commonly used functions to say.

Site permissions: Site permissions are divided into public, password access, private (only team members can view)

Team collaboration: Team collaboration is divided into (can be managed, edited, and read)

Visitor statistics: A portrait of the number of people visiting the current wiki site can be identified

Web navigation menu: the shortcut navigation in the upper right corner of a web site

Full-text search: Provides full-text search for wiki site content

API: Provides the API interface

Article feedback: The article feedback feature lets wiki site creators know the availability of content in the form of likes

Results the preview

Just like GitBook, Baklib supports private deployment. Let’s take a look at Baklib and make a presentation of internal requirements documents and external help documents.

Product address:www.baklib.com/?utm\_conte…

Conclusion: Baklib is the closest product to Gitbook in China, and the most reliable online document making platform in China by far!