--- title: How Good Documentation Can Improve Productivity | daily.dev description: In the tech industry, there’s a problem with internal documentation. We treat documentation as a product, and put care into creating comprehensive... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-good-documentation-can-improve-productivity-murfhrw-s twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Good Documentation Can Improve Productivity | daily.dev og:description: In the tech industry, there’s a problem with internal documentation. We treat documentation as a product, and put care into creating comprehensive... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-good-documentation-can-improve-productivity-murfhrw-s og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/mUrfhrW-S.png og:image:alt: How Good Documentation Can Improve Productivity og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Good Documentation Can Improve Productivity **[Shopify Engineering](https://daily.dev/sources/shopify)** · 7 min read · 22 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary In the tech industry, there’s a problem with internal documentation. We treat documentation as a product, and put care into creating comprehensive documentation. At Shopify, we’ve tried to overcome that issue by standardizing the way we write, avoiding disparate sources of truth, and creating a writing culture. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#github](https://daily.dev/tags/github), [#git](https://daily.dev/tags/git), [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity), [#markdown](https://daily.dev/tags/markdown), [#shopify](https://daily.dev/tags/shopify) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-good-documentation-can-improve-productivity-murfhrw-s) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How Good Documentation Can Improve Productivity","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-good-documentation-can-improve-productivity-murfhrw-s","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-good-documentation-can-improve-productivity-murfhrw-s"},"datePublished":"2023-01-12T15:13:24.771Z","dateModified":"2023-01-12T15:13:24.770Z","description":"In the tech industry, there’s a problem with internal documentation. We treat documentation as a product, and put care into creating comprehensive...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/53dcdca95c623f00d9293c4c91a8a81d","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/53dcdca95c623f00d9293c4c91a8a81d","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Shopify Engineering","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Shopify Engineering","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/3ecd37b0af964c8f8b1536e5fa57a0fc","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/shopify"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-good-documentation-can-improve-productivity-murfhrw-s","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":22},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"github,git,productivity,markdown,shopify","timeRequired":"PT7M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Shopify Engineering","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/shopify"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"How Good Documentation Can Improve Productivity"}]} ```