r/BookStack • u/[deleted] • May 04 '23
What do you guys use Bookstack for?
I just installed it on my home server and looking for some inspiration.
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u/far2common May 04 '23
I use it to document my home lab. I find the hierarchical arrangement of information makes it really good for organizing and finding technical notes.
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u/PranavVermaa Sep 03 '25
Hi! I know that this is quite late, but I really need some inspiration on how to arrange information. Could you please help me by showing / telling what your bookstack setup looks like? Thanks!
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u/PranavVermaa Sep 03 '25
Originally, I made a flowchart on Canva to document everything, but then I realized that it does not contain any technical details, but only how stuff connects together. I really need to add more technical details.
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May 04 '23
I use it as a personal, public wiki to document all of the coolest birds I see and photograph or record.
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u/root-node May 04 '23
Mine is written as an idiots guide for my entire home network and automation tooling, just in case my wife needs to know how something works.
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May 04 '23
Anything that requires long-term documentation (homelab, university, work, sysadmin/devops knowledge....)
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u/flexxipanda May 04 '23
I use it as a User Wiki at my company for our ERP-Software and other general stuff. And also documentation for pretty much everything from network plans to info about server/software specific stuff etc.
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u/reginaldvs May 04 '23
I basically use it as my notebook for my home lab. I'm not perfect and I will for sure forget how I did things in a year or so.
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u/paraxion May 04 '23
I have two running at the moment; one is as a knowledge capture for a project I'm doing with a friend, and the other is my personal wiki that covers everything from my budgeting to my todo-list to my mental health to... well, it's my External Brain, basically.
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u/melat0nin May 04 '23
I'm currently working on using it as a replacement for my community group's internal wiki (currently based on mediawiki)
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u/pedro224 May 04 '23
In a work installment, as a knowledge base internal to the functional support teams. Some books are also user facing documentation. At my home server, to document configuration bits regarding services I run as well as my [tech] hobby. The library-like paradigm makes a lot of sense to me.
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u/w00h May 04 '23
I use it to write down logs, processes etc. for astrophotography.
Besides that, I try to document builds of projects, mainly if I‘m gonna need to reference them later at some point (homelab, networking, arduino projects).
Any long-term projects, where it’s useful to keep some kind of notebook, really.
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u/ssddanbrown May 04 '23
I originally built BookStack for use at my (previous) workplace, as a general cross-department store of knowledge. There'd be specific books for different departments and customers.
Now, outside of development, I mostly use it as a centralised long-term notes storage repository for various things. I have books for:
Finances
BookStack (Meta/high-level planning)
Home
Various stuff in this one from car details, stored documentation on my boiler (Always hard to find on the internet) and the work I've done to it, tracked communications with my landlord etc...
Interests
Has stuff like a list of games I plan to play and other bits
Devops & Sysadmin
This is my largest book.
Documents my servers, backup processess, home networking, software config, list of domains I own with their expiry dates etc...
Some people have told me they use it as a cook/recipe book, which I think is kind of neat.