Contextual documentation

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Contextual documentation is an information block approach to writing in-situ documentation.

It becomes particularly useful when dealing with in-situ documentation delivered to the software GUI, to devise a matrix of required help to users in a particular situation or context.

This concept is based on DITA, where small topics are written when needed asking the right questions:{{Cite book|last=Purcell|first=Gretchen P.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tAnhAAAAMAAJ&q=Contextual+documentation|title=Contextual Document Models for Searching the Clinical Literature|date=1996|publisher=Stanford University|language=en}}

• What is this and/or what does it do?
• How do I use it?
• Do I have an example?
• Where am I in terms of a workflow?
• What next?
• What pitfalls to avoid?

This is an editorial matrix, a content guideline as sorts. By no means are all items to be written exhaustively as if they were a form to be filled

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