Hello everyone and welcome back to another video in today's video
We're reviewing slab which is an internal wiki tool the teams can use to coordinate their team knowledge
Everything from employee onboarding all the way to FAQs and information like that
So we're going to be reviewing that one in today's video. So let's jump in
Hello guys, welcome to this video today we are reviewing slab
We have it in front of us here for those who are brand new to this channel. My name is Francesco
I'll be taking you through this application today
the main reason I've been exploring internal wiki's a lot recently is
Because of the popularity of an application called notion
So in today's video we're looking at another resource that claims to be a useful wiki resource
So I've already create an account. You can access it from slab comm you can go to
Your team once you create an account
And I've created one for the key productive team now slab is really simple
It claims to be a long-term memory for your team. So
It's essentially trying to coordinate
All of the wiki's documents that you have and notes
Into one space so that whether they're you're a new employee or an older employee and you need to know a bit of information
whether it's like how you coordinate the blog or
what you need to do when you're setting up your new PC for the company that
is all in one place for people to find now there are a couple of
alternatives to these like wikis like slim wiki I know of
coda is obviously becoming more popular and does a few more additional features as
Well as notion and I will be reviewing a couple more like this application called outline, etc
So guys, let's jump in this application can be used for pretty much anything
I'm gonna be demoing with the features today giving you the pricing and giving you general opinion of the application
So as we can see this is so I'm at the front of us on this left-hand panel
We have the basically designed bar. You can actually find everything you need to know in terms of navigation
you've got home home will take you to this page here so that you can
All of the recently viewed features as well as any favorites that you've saved you can also access drafts here two
Drafts are when you're creating a post or a wiki inside of here and you're yet to publish it
You can pretty much go in there and continue to draft it. Now. You've also got favorites here
And once you save those favorites using the star option, you can access them from here
So that's could be your favorite posts. Then you've got something called topics
You can create a new topic
But let me just click show all because that will demonstrate what it can look like
You can create almost a structure to everything
So for example like in this demonstration
If you had a company you could have their roadmap here the vision the mission ending onboarding documents any temper
That's templates are pre created and any department that all of these documents relate to so
It's quite a nice experience in terms of finding anything. You need to know
so this can be really accessible now if you want to hide away that navigation bar when you're inside of a
Wiki then you can do just by tapping that there now you have got a search bar on there on the top
I will demonstrate some of the integrations that you can get a bit later, but let's just dive into an example
so for example
if I clicked on company, I would basically be met by this page and what you have when you click inside of a topic is
You have all of the posts that are relevant to it
so for example
This sort of reminds me of PO do and like a social networking
application almost like a team collaboration tool but posts essentially are your wikis
So for example, they've got a few sample ones here like getting a new laptop. So for example, if a company
provides laptops you could have a available model set selection here and
embed using Google Forms a
Laptop request form that you could use quite easily here. So it's quite a neat way of be able to do it
And of course you've got once you inside of the post or the wiki here
You can actually access the different areas and if this was longer you'd be able to see all of that
So with the top right-hand corner, you can edit the post if you'd like editing the post is really easy. I
Played around with a few and I will be demonstrating what this looks like, but you can pretty much
And any form of multimedia that you like with that images links files
Whatever and if for example you can text format with links and comments and leave them for your team
now if you want to
Unpublish this you can go to the top right you can favorite it
and if I hit favorite you can see it appears in this left-hand side and also you can export it and
Make a copy of it and you can export
into
Docx markdown PDF as well as it view the history
You can actually see who's edited it what comments have been left by other people
So it's it's not just a static post now, you can also share it
You can actually create a public link for anyone that want to view it or you can add specific
Owners that already joined in so it's quite an easy way. And also I did see that they have real-time synchronous as well
So if you were editing if someone else was editing this you'd be able to see exactly who's doing that which is good
So if I go over and I begin to create a new for example, let's say on onboarding
Let's say for the key productive side of stuff. We have the blog. Let's say I wanted to create a quick onboarding document for those
Who are new to the blog and just want to get started if I click create at the top right hand corner?
You create a new post and this is automatically available in your drafts
You can see that that's a draft now and of course you can see if you click into yourself
You can see all of the posts that you've created beforehand. So that's quite a quick and nice shortcut there
So for example if I want to say blog editors
guideline
Guidelines and I could get started straightaway. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to craft a post. I'm gonna speed it up
So that you can see the sort of text formatting that I have
the ability to create
So here we are a really simple
Demonstration of how the post work, for example when you get started. I added a header to this document a
Post and you can also add these headers as you go throughout
So, for example, I added three core hate to headers
I ought lined a bit of the information to cite how to create a new blog post
and obviously this is very condensed and
creating header
Images and I also dragged in an image into this one and it saved it beautifully now things that I didn't add it also allows
You to add obviously more images. You have got video. You've got embedding
so if you wanted an
Embed a code or for example a YouTube video you could do so you can mention another post or mention a user
ordered list bulleted list or a checklist
So there for example if you want to make a quick checklist that is interacted you can even add code tables
I believe that is and also the additional horizontal line
So they're all accessible through just tapping this plus button media button down here and as you can see it's already
Coordinated the outline of the post as well so you don't have to now once I'm happy
what I would do is I'd press publish and as you can see you can add topics to it and actually
Assign it to so for example company onboarding if I kept publish and I go down to show all
You should be able to see that inside of that. So there we go
It's available in the post section inside of onboarding
now if I wanted a favorite topic
specifically I could do and of course I can access all of the topics below there and if I want to create a new post
It's quite easy here now inside of each topic page
you can actually see the top contributors to subtopics and any activities have been edited since you've been there which is quite easy and
If you want to you can go into other articles and actually share or publish them straight from there
So as you can imagine there are a few templates inside of here
So if I go to show or hit templates, you can see a few that they've created like meeting notes templates and project overview
So this could be a project overview template that you created and naturally you can see the goals non goals team goals
And you even with each poster thank each people so you can use a couple of templates if you want to create a new topic
There are a few templated ones here
So for example, if you want today a department for planning and developing helping winning drawing
There's loads there that you can do it and you can nest them underneath
Specific other topics now you're probably wondering when it comes to pricing and information like that. How does everything work?
They have a free trial which is 30 days. They also have a pricing. I think it's 10 users
annually as a price is
$25 per month for those 10 users
They also have a business edition of it with improved authentication and premium integrations
And that's $50 per user per month
Now the notable thing is they've got a few integrations with get hard Google Drive slack air table Dropbox paper G suite
YouTube
And future integrations with Atlassian products coming soon
They also have the ability to manage history management. I think this was founded by a previous employees of Airbnb
Dropbox and Y Combinator now just before we go. I wanted to demonstrate the Google Drive integration
I connected up with a Google Drive mini to demonstrate from so for example
if you already have a Google Drive full of documents and you want to be able to
Study in some - obviously it's lab but you still want access or your Google Drive. You can do that here
say for example, if I typed in like a couple of projects or done a search that
quickly finds inside of Google Drive
so for example
I could find all the Google Drive
And once I hit enter it would open up that Google Drive document and I can even add a folder to it
So that's quite a neat way
And you can obviously search and add more integrations like Dropbox paper and slack to make it searchable as well
And it was hopefully that was a nice overview
As I said, I'll wanted to be doing more internal wiki tools because this is quite a popular space
I think companies are leaning their way
towards these tools because as you could imagine
There's tons of them and and all that knowledge and information that a company's got can be found and accessed there
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