Choosing Wiki Software: Confluence, Notion, Nuclino, SharePoint, or Something Else?

I"m looking for something to use with my Retrofuturistic Hardware Vertically Integrated Projects team.

[BartWronsk]

Recently I switched to Obsidian for "everything" (research notes, links, personal organization, task management, journaling). Hard to say yet if it will serve this role, it is very "low level" and DIY in a way, with a lot of customization - so it's definitely possible, just not sure if it's "optimal".

[MixMeMcGee]

Very much been wondering about this for our work lately.

[AMTunLimited]

I use Confluence for work and notion personally.

Confluence I feel like as much more of a traditional wiki in that I don't really use it much more than formatted text, hierarchical organization, and inter-article linking. It does have phenomenal support for collaboration and the formatting looks fantastic, it's been really easy to use and I can definitely recommend it.

Notion has a lot more to offer in terms of the individual documents, especially with the databases, which I've only really scratched the surface of. Notion has become my own personal wiki, and I've been organizing a number of projects using it and it's been working really well. The mobile app is especially good as well. I don't really know how well the collaboration works, but I doubt it's bad.

[BCLPS]

My company uses notion for internal docs. It seems very feature rich but the web interface itself is relatively slow and frustrating. Just editing text always gets me tripped up when I try to select something and end up dragging a whole block of text around or try to type something and inadvertently trigger some shortcut command.

[waseemimam]

Notion is likely the best due to ease of use, and ability to embed video and photos easily

[sabamacx]

I'm personally a fan of simple markup textfiles in a collaborative git repo, with something like jekyll or pandoc converting them to static sites. Simplicity is divinity.

[audunrundberg]

Until Confluence gains a «paste and remove formatting» keyboard shortcut I would not use it for any new projects. Somehow, they have hijacked Ctrl+Shift+V so that it does nothing.

I would argue that the core feature in a Wiki is the editing, and Confluence’s editor is not very good. I mainly use it for plain text with code snippets and screenshots.

[epiccodygamer]

I’ve never done VIP before but I’d be interested in joining in the Spring possibly. Are there any big pre-reqs?

[Frellmeckerell]

I'm looking forward to see some recommendations here, I've been pushing for the VScode plugin dendron at my studio. Open source, built with git in mind and possible to publish as html in seconds.

[erajad]

I worked for 30 years in a major research university in the UK, and several times made use of wikis for collaborative projects. The one that I used most, and liked most, was Dokuwiki. Easy to set up, well maintained, and it's a "proper" wiki. Worth kicking the tires, IMO. I used it for years with an international linguistics project, and it suited that well.

That said, my personal choice (i.e., for personal projects) is Fossil, the code management software for SQLite, and made by the same folks. It's awesome. The documentation is very complete: think of it as Git on steroids. It has a built-in wiki in its built-in web frontend. Could be your dream come true.

The only thing I would add to your description of Sharepoint ("it feels kind of like hitting myself in the face with a brick") is "repeatedly". HATE IT. Wouldn't touch it with a barge pole if I had a choice (sometimes I didn't: it was used in-house for some admin tasks. It NEVER made things easier. NEVER.).

[abneramador]

Aaron, I just saw your video from last August and I'm wondering how did SharePoint work for you or did you have to use a different product?
BTW, are you on LinkedIn so we can chat about this?