Diataxis organizes documentation into four types:
- Tutorials (learning)
- How-to Guides (problem-solving)
- Reference (information), and
- Explanation (understanding).
The framework’s purpose is to define types of documentation in order to address various needs, learning styles, and work support. This is typically applied to technical documentation and doesn’t typically work for other types of file organization.
- Q: How might one expand this to non-documentation storage types?
The axes could remain the same, with the exception of expanding “coding” to “creating.” Perhaps there should be an additional aspect which is internally and internally created, sort of applying Bloom’s taxonomy. Or for a stage of development, related to the gardening analogy.
