# are there online communities for sharing technical notes / mpsims? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 28, 2011, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-online-communities-for-sharing-technical-notes-mpsims/587113 "2011-06-28T06:51:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![code\_grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@code\_grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/code_grey)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-online-communities-for-sharing-technical-notes-mpsims/587113/1 "2011-06-28T06:51:45Z")
afaik various notes taking software, including Microsoft OneNote, have attempted supporting multiple users working with the same set of notes. Building on this idea, hypothetically, a large online community could exist generating OneNote-style short notes/articles about whatever mundane not-quite-pointless technical info tidbits its members may encounter. The notes would basically accumulate in a searchable database and so on. In some ways that might be sort of like a wiki or E2, and in other ways it might be sort of like StackOverflow, but dynamics might be a bit different. Anyway, so has anybody encountered this sort of communities out in the wild? Or does the notion of shared text notes belong mostly to the vendors’ marketing brochures? ---
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2011, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-there-online-communities-for-sharing-technical-notes-mpsims/587113/2 "2011-06-28T06:54:38Z")
Many software packages have a Wiki containing user-produced documentation, either one set up by the vendor/author, or one set up by the users indepedently.