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Searchable docs don't connect knowledge for new hires

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

Team documentation tools like Notion and Confluence make pages searchable, but new hires still struggle to understand how documents relate to each other. They often need to ask colleagues to reconstruct the reasoning behind decisions. The gap between searchable and connected knowledge bases remains a common problem for teams.

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This highlights a persistent UX failure in knowledge management tools that prioritize indexing over contextual relationships.
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Searchable isn't the same as connected: why team docs still make new hires ask 'why' →
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