BookStack: Stop Losing Team Knowledge to Chat Threads

Every business has institutional knowledge that lives in someone's head, a Slack thread from 2022, or a Google Doc nobody can find. When that person leaves or that thread scrolls away, the knowledge is gone. BookStack solves this by giving teams a structured, searchable documentation platform they actually want to use.

Books, Chapters, Pages

BookStack organizes content into a natural hierarchy: Shelves contain Books, Books contain Chapters, and Chapters contain Pages. This makes it intuitive for non-technical users. A marketing agency might have a Shelf for each client, a Book for each service, Chapters for campaign types, and Pages for step-by-step instructions. A construction firm might organize by project, trade, and procedure.

BookStack features a WYSIWYG editor with Markdown support, diagram embedding (draw.io), full-text search, revision history, and role-based permissions. It supports SSO via OAuth, LDAP, and SAML, so your team logs in with the same credentials they use everywhere else.

Why It Matters

Documentation is often the last thing a busy team prioritizes: until they need it and it is not there. BookStack lowers the barrier with a clean interface that does not feel like a chore. Deployment is straightforward via Docker, and the platform has been actively maintained since 2015 under the MIT license.

VPS1 deploys BookStack as a turnkey internal wiki for teams of any size. See specifications on our BookStack software page.