As a practicing technical writer I can testify that these content types are a common way to organize your documentation collection and identify gaps.
It’s a useful exercise to list each doc as a row in a spreadsheet, and then mark whether each doc is a tutorial, guide, conceptual overview, or reference, or a confused combination. Many times you’ll see that you have explained how feature A works but have no tutorial that shows how to use feature A, or vice versa.
It’s a useful exercise to list each doc as a row in a spreadsheet, and then mark whether each doc is a tutorial, guide, conceptual overview, or reference, or a confused combination. Many times you’ll see that you have explained how feature A works but have no tutorial that shows how to use feature A, or vice versa.