Release notes, three ways
A customer-facing update, a Keep-a-Changelog entry, and an API changelog where breaking changes are impossible to miss.
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Seven documentation templates that read like a good docs repo
Release notes in three styles, a how-to article, a troubleshooting article, an API endpoint reference, an explanation brief for non-technical readers, a one-page docs style guide with readability targets, and the pre-publish checklist. Each with the front matter fields a docs generator expects. Replace the brackets, delete the guidance lines, publish.
DOCX7 templatesDocs style guide
- 7
- templates plus the docs style guide
- 3
- release-note styles: customer, changelog, API
- 5
- readability targets by doc type, pre-filled
What is inside
Built for the work, not the feed.
Technical writers, developer-relations writers, product managers and support teams who write the docs people actually search for.
How-to and troubleshooting
Goal in the title, prerequisites, numbered steps with the exact UI label in bold, the expected result, and a what-went-wrong table. Troubleshooting: symptom, cause, fix, prevention.
API endpoint reference
Request, path and query parameters, body, response, every error with what to do, a runnable example, and the notes readers hit on the second call.
The explanation brief
For explaining a technical concept to a non-technical reader: the decision they must make, the one-sentence takeaway, a precision ledger of numbers that must survive simplification, the analogy and where it breaks, and the check question.
A docs style guide on one page
Structure, readability targets per doc type, words, UI labels and code, screenshots, versions and testing, terminology. Pre-filled with the defaults docs teams use.
Guidance lines you delete
Every template carries short "Guidance:" lines explaining the choice, so a new writer learns the why. Delete them when the doc is done.
Look inside
These are the actual pages you get.
Screenshots are taken from the file itself, not a mock-up. What you see here is what lands in your inbox.
How to use it
Three steps, then it is yours.
- 1Copy the template you need into your docs tool; keep the front-matter fields if your generator uses them.
- 2Replace every [bracket] and delete every line that starts with Guidance.
- 3Run the pre-publish checklist at the end of the file before you publish.
Questions
Before you download
01Do the templates work in a docs generator?
Yes. Each template starts with the common front-matter fields (title, description, last_tested, version_tested) that Docusaurus, MkDocs, Hugo, Jekyll and most others read. Paste the template into a Markdown file in your repo, or delete the front matter if you do not use one.
02Why readability targets for docs?
Docs fail when the sentence around the exact term is too long, not because the term is there. The targets keep the term and shorten everything else.
03Why a Word file for docs templates?
So everyone on the team can read and adapt it, including the product manager and the support lead who do not live in a repo. The structure pastes cleanly into Markdown.
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Seven documentation templates, ready to fill
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