Documentation Monster
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Creating Documentation, one Markdown at a time

Easy Topic Creation & Navigation
Rich Markdown Editing
Based on Markdown Monster
Live, synched Html preview
Inline spell checking
Embed images, links and code
Support for Class Documentation
Generate static Html Web Sites
Interactive Topic Linking
Link checking and validation
Output to static Web site
Ftp Upload Publishing
Pdf, Html and Markdown output
Integrated Git support
Customizable Html Templates
Support for Class Documentation
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West Wind Technologies

The Friendly Beast for Technical Documentation

Documentation Monster is a powerful, yet easy to use Markdown based tool for creating structured technical documentation for user manuals, reference docs, FAQs, knowledge bases or anything that needs multiple associated documents. Based on Markdown Monster's powerful and user friendly Markdown editor, Documentation Monster adds rich project management to create, edit, manage and publish technical documentation online, or publish it in various output formats including Html, Pdf, a self-contained viewer.

You can quickly create a project of related topics. Keep it simple with a flat topic list, or create a nested hierarchy of linked topics. You can drag and copy topics around, sort and otherwise manage your project. Documentation Monster optimizes the workflow and lets you quickly add topics, create rich Markdown content, edit topic meta data, and immediately generate output from your project or individual files. All the while you can see what your output looks like while you type. The core feature centers around your content and the rich topic editor with it's live synced preview, that makes it easy to create content from text, images, topic links and external links. It does so via intuitive tools that make content creation quick and natural. AI based writing tools can help with content suggestions, summaries, and spell and grammar checking.

When ready, generate a self-contained static Web site ready for publishing, or single file Pdf, Html or Markdown documents. Generated Web sites can be published incrementally via Ftp and individual topics can be uploaded for quick content updates. Integrated Git support also allows you to easily collaborate on your project or publish your project to a Git enabled server.

Content is stored in Markdown Files for each topic with a project Json file that contains addition project and topic meta data. All data is in easily reusable text formats - nothing proprietary is used so your data is never held captive.

Put the fun back into creating documentation with Documentation Monster!

Documentation Monster Features

Project Management

  • Create new projects quickly
  • Fast Topic Tree Creation
  • Add Topics anywhere
  • Drag and Drop topics
  • Copy and Paste across Projects
  • Topic Sorting
  • Interactive Topic Linking
  • Topic and Image Link Validation

Markdown Editing

  • Easy and fast Markdown editing
  • Syntax colored Markdown text
  • Live Preview while you type
  • Inline spell checking
  • Easy image and link embedding
  • Paste images from Clipboard
  • Two-way Table Editor
  • Import Markdown from Html
  • Based on the Markdown Monster Editor

Output Generation

  • Generate to static Html Web Site
  • Publish to Servers via Ftp
  • Generate Single File Pdf and Html
  • Generate Single File Markdown for LLMs
  • Create a self-running Viewer (Windows only)
  • Copy to Folder or Zip File
  • Integrated Project Backups

Tools and Customization

  • Document Outline
  • Git Integration
  • Live Topic Link Checker
  • Project Link Checker
  • Dark and Light UI Themes
  • Customizable Preview Themes

For Developers

  • Import .NET Assemblies
  • Import Sql Databases
  • Import OpenAPI Services
  • Export Markdown for LLMs
  • Import Markdown from File System
  • Import from Html Help Builder