Features

This page lists what DocSpade can do, with a link to read more about each part.

Review

Feature	What it does
Style review	Checks wording, terms and tone against the style guides you choose: Google, Microsoft and Healthcare.
Accessibility check	Looks for problems that make an article hard to read or use with assistive technology, such as skipped headings and unclear link text.
AI readiness check	Checks whether an article is organized so that an assistant or search tool can find the right part of it. It covers structure, code, images and tables, safety, metadata, freshness and clarity.
Article types	Adds checks for the structure that a quickstart, how-to guide, concept, reference, troubleshooting, release-notes or glossary article should have.
Recommended changes	Offers a one-click fix for many style findings.

Writing

Feature	What it does
Visual and Markdown editing	Write in a page that looks like the result, or in Markdown, and switch between them.
Private drafts	Keep work in progress to yourself, separate from what is published.
Navigation	Arrange articles in a menu with groups, links to other websites and dividers.
Images	Add PNG, JPEG or WebP images, with alt text.
Notes and alerts	Call out text with note, tip, caution and danger boxes.
Tabs	Show alternatives, such as instructions for different systems, one at a time.
Shared content	Write text once and reuse it in many articles.
Import and export	Import a Markdown file. Download an article as Markdown, Word or PDF. Export the navigation.

Publishing

Feature	What it does
Save for publishing	Marks an article as ready for the next site update, without changing what readers see.
Publish site	Builds a new version of the site and makes it live when it is ready. The old version stays live until then, and if the build fails.
Site appearance	Choose a theme, a font, a site name and a logo for each site, or use your organization’s defaults.
Home pages	Set a home page for each site, with cards that point readers to the articles they will want first, and a home page for your organization that lists all of your published sites.
Your own web address	Each organization’s documentation is served from its own address.
Scheduled publishing	Publish automatically at times you set.
Release history	See each release’s status, warnings and who published it.
Rollback	Return a site, and its writing, to an earlier version.

Ask AI

Feature	What it does
Answers with sources	Readers ask a question and get an answer written from your published articles, with links to the pages used.
Honest answers	If your documentation does not contain the answer, Ask AI says so instead of guessing.
Tone and persona	Choose a professional, friendly, concise or formal tone, and describe who the assistant is.
Use in your own software	Connect Ask AI to your own applications with an API key.

Reader feedback

Feature	What it does
Was this page helpful?	Every article on a published site ends with a thumbs up and a thumbs down, with optional reasons and a short comment.
Anonymous	Feedback never identifies the reader.
Summary	See totals, the most common reasons, and the pages with the most thumbs down.

Organizing your work

Feature	What it does
Organizations, spaces and knowledge bases	Group documentation by company, product or audience.
Style guides per space or knowledge base	Set the review rules once for a space, and let its knowledge bases follow them, or give a knowledge base its own.
Roles	Owners, admins, members and guests in an organization, and viewers, editors and publishers on a knowledge base.

Free review without an account

The Review page lets anyone check a piece of writing against the style guides and the accessibility check without signing in. The AI readiness check needs you to be signed in.