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Gramax Blog

Platform news, a closer look at documentation features, and tips for building a documentation portal that works for your team.

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AI in the Contact Center: Where to Start

An overview of AI for the contact center: chatbot, voice bot, agent assist, and AI search in the knowledge base. What each option delivers and why the knowledge base is the place to start.

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How to Open an MD File: the Easiest Way

What a file with the .md extension is and how to open it to see normal text instead of hashes and asterisks. Simple, online and with nothing to install.

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Word to Markdown: Convert a Document in a Minute

How to convert a Word document to Markdown without special software or manual markup: copy the text and paste it into Gramax. Headings, lists and tables come over automatically.

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Excel to Markdown: Move a Table in a Minute

How to move a table from Excel or Google Sheets to Markdown without manual markup: copy the cells and paste them into Gramax. Rows, columns and merged cells come over automatically.

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💥 The Manifesto 💥

Why shared documents turn into chaos and how to fix it: the principles of a single source of truth and the ideas Gramax is built on.

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AI Bot for Support

How to build an AI chatbot on top of your documentation: typical approaches and their pitfalls, content requirements, and how Gramax automates support.

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Docs as Code — is it Easy?

A Gramax co-founder on why Docs as Code is hard for analysts and technical writers, which systems it takes, and how to lower the barrier to entry.

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Conceptually about Asynchronous Editing

What asynchronous document editing is, how it differs from real-time co-editing in Google Docs, and when it works better for a team.

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Documentation for clients

How to keep project documentation in a client's Confluence, ServiceNow or other systems without breaking your internal Docs as Code workflow.

Comparison

Mintlify vs. Gramax: A Quick Comparison

Mintlify vs Gramax: Git integration, editor, hosting, free plan limits and team collaboration. A quick comparison to help you pick a docs tool.

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Git Commands for Non-Technical Specialists

Git commands in plain language for non-technical specialists: branches, commit, push, pull, diff and pull requests explained through work with documents.

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Management Decisions with Git. How it Works

How we moved management decisions to Git: why messengers and wikis failed us, what we needed, and the pros and cons of keeping decisions in a repository.