Topic-based documentation

One of the older digital documentation techniques is “topic-based.” As far as I am aware, perhaps one of the most well-known examples of documentation that uses this methodology is the AWS documentation (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/index.html). This technique breaks documentation into discrete “topics” that cover a task.

For example, the Monito Getting Started guide, Which Chapter 1 started looking at in, in the Looking at an example section, could contain the following topics:

• Choose an SDK
• Register an account
• Get an authentication key
• Use an authentication key with an SDK
• Add an SDK to your project
• Make a call with the SDK

And so on.

When displayed as an unordered list, this doesn’t show you the unique point of topic-based documentation. Each of these topics is (essentially) a separate file, or at least a separate section in a file, depending on the tool you use. To create documentation...