Best GitBook Alternatives in 2026
For a bit of background, we used GitBook for years with our previous social media API company. GitBook powered our docs, which were critical for the developers building on our system and for our developer focused marketing efforts. I personally spent hours a day creating and updating the docs, so I got to know the GitBook WYSIWYG, capabilities, and restrictions quite well. Now, this article isn't about the good or bad of GitBook, but I will detail a few things that made us go through a migratio
How to Create a User Manual: The Complete Guide for Teams
Customers try self-service first: 73% use it at some point, yet only 14% of issues are fully resolved there. Here are seven steps to a user manual that closes the gap, plus the AI prompts to draft it faster.
Halo: A Warmer Theme for Docs
Halo is our fourth built-in docs theme: warm sand ground, caramel accent, Figtree, and a rounded content card the writing sits on. Switching is one line in docs.json.
MCP vs API: The Difference for Developers
A customer contacted us last month about their Jamdesk docs. Their team had switched to Claude Code, and Claude couldn't answer a single question about their own API. The docs were public and the search endpoint worked, but Claude just didn't know either of those things existed unless their specifically gave the docs URL at the start of every session. We told them to add our MCP server to Claude Code's config. Two minutes later Claude was searching their docs and giving back results. That gap,
Designing Docs for AI Agents
Your docs' fastest-growing reader doesn't have eyes. What changes when documentation gets consumed by agents: serve markdown, write everything down, make every page stand alone, and treat errors as content.
Introducing the Jamdesk Visual Web Editor
Edit your Jamdesk docs directly in the browser. A three-pane editor with live preview, page templates, and commits straight to GitHub, with no local setup or terminal required.
Why is Jamdesk better than Mintlify?
Mintlify charges you to use the AI in your own docs. Jamdesk doesn't — here's the math, straight from Mintlify's own pricing.
How to Generate an API Key
Generate secure API keys the way Stripe does: a CSPRNG token, a type-and-environment prefix like sk_live_, and a SHA-256 hash you store instead of the raw key. Working code for generation, verification, revocation, and rotation in Node.js, Python, and Go.
How to Create Mermaid Diagrams
Write diagrams as plain text, commit them next to your code, and render them in GitHub, GitLab, Notion, or Jamdesk. A practical Mermaid guide with copyable examples.