Existing features

GoHandbooks is LIVE and in beta mode.

Here's a list of our existing features that you can take advantage of: 

  1. Books - Books help keep your handbooks organized. They act as top-level pages for a collection of book pages. Most organizations create books based on how their company operations are structured, one per functional domain such as Finance, Marketing, Sales & Business Development, Human Resources, and additionally one per service delivery team such as "Web Design" or "Digital Marketing" or "Website Maintenance & Support".
     
  2. Book pages - All book pages belong to a book and each book should be useful on its own. Book pages are best built as checklists, templates, or instructions for a recurring task or activity that the members of the team frequently perform. A rich-text editor is provided for each book page so that you can make structure and present the content in an efficient and effective manner.
     
  3. Content revisions - Just like a wiki, all updates to content pages are stored in our system so you can see what was changed, by who, and when. The system will track all the revisions for you and allow you to compare any two revisions to see the differences and to revert back to any revision. This way, nothing is lost!
     
  4. Book hierarchy - Within each book, you can organize your book pages in a parent-child relationships to create a hierarchy and a smooth user navigation experience.
     
  5. Organize books - You can re-order and update the hierarchy of your book pages at a glance through drag-n-drop. You can even rename multiple book page titles in one go on this page to organize your books the way you like them.
     
  6. Search - Ability to run keyword searches across all your book pages and to see those results and navigate to any result.
     
  7. Bookmarks - Ability to bookmark any book page. Your bookmarks are displayed on the left sidebar. You can also manage your bookmarks to remove any you no longer want. Your bookmarks provide you with quick one-click access to the book pages you use the most.
     
  8. Brower extension/plugin - By installing our browser extension for Chrome or plugin for Firefox you can quickly access your handbooks, including your bookmarks, by clicking on our icon at the top of your browser. This saves you time as you don't have to switch to another window or tab each time you want to refer to a handbook. If you're already logged in to GoHandbooks, the browser extension/plugin will pick that up through single sign on.
     
  9. Invite members - Ability to send invitations to other users to invite them to join your team. Once they confirm their email address by clicking in the link that GoHandbooks will send them, they'll have access to your operator's manual in GoHandbooks.
     
  10. Accordions - When creating your handbook content, we've added an accordion feature that is very easy to use and very handy as it allows you to organize your content into collapsible sections that the user can open and close through a simple click. This is very handy for checklists, steps, and lists.
     
  11. Team - View your team at a glance. Admins can use this page to invite new team members and remove existing ones. This page allows new people on the team to get to know the people they work with.
     
  12. About - The About section allows you to share your organizational profile with your team. By providing detailed and comprehensive information in this organizational profile, you can empower your team with essential insights for effective onboarding, seamless operations, and consistent marketing efforts enhancing team alignment and productivity.
     
  13. Guidelines ( new! ) - A section dedicated to organizational policies where you can document and publish the policies that shape and govern your organization for all team members to access.
     
  14. Autosave ( new! )  - The system will save any content you are in the process of writing or editing every few seconds so that if you accidentally close your browser tab or leave the page without saving, your content will re-appear when you return to the page.
     
  15. Automatic quick links ( new! )  - When headings (h2, h3, etc) are used on book pages, the system will generate an automatic mini "table of contents" called "Quick links" acting as anchors to let the user see the list of the page's section headings and click on them to automatically scroll down to the section they want to access.

If there are features you want us to consider building in, please refer to our roadmap first to see if it's already in our plans.