Blog

Notes on documentation, done better

Guides, opinions, and product updates from the Routinly team.

The real cost of undocumented processes

Every process that lives only in someone's head is a liability with a start date. Here's how to put a number on it.

Onboard new hires twice as fast with video-first docs

Stop repeating the same walkthrough. Record it once, let AI write it up, and point every new hire at the same source of truth.

SOP vs. process doc vs. runbook: what's the difference?

Three terms, three jobs. A quick field guide to which document your team actually needs — and when.

Product update: custom writing tone is here

Formal for compliance, friendly for onboarding, brief for engineers. Tell Routinly how your team writes.

Turning YouTube tutorials into written guides

Paste a URL, get a step-by-step doc. How teams use YouTube import to build internal libraries from public content.

Documentation should be a byproduct, not a project

If writing docs is a separate task, it will always lose to real work. The fix is to capture work as it happens.