Planning Your Documentation

This chapter guides you through how to turn the empathy you gained in Chapter 1 into action with a documentation plan, which outlines the content and content types you need to create before you start writing. Content types are different ways to present information. Different content types help solve different kinds of problems. Content types include code comments, READMEs, getting started, conceptual, procedural, and reference documentation. Each of these types follows different patterns, and building content based around these patterns helps create effective and consistent documentation.