I’ve been having to create some new website stuff lately and of course with RW. I get tired of searching through the docs for things I’ve forgotten. Any chance there is an up-to-date document with all of the Rapidweaver documentation and technical FAQs available? I want to train a custom 4o GPT with it and a few other documents to answer my questions directly.
Hey @jscotta,
At the moment there’s not a single platform for the docs. I know, it’s a bit scattered. 
Originally hard-copy PDF manuals were created for the RW major releases, but that was scrapped in favor of online docs as they’re easier to maintain and can be updated faster. The last hard-copy PDF manual that was created was for RapidWeaver 7, which you can still find online.
With RapidWeaver Classic the docs were moved over to Gitbook which is a nice platform, but people seemed to be utilizing the forum more than Gitbook to get their questions answered. Because of that we enabled our forum platform’s (Discourse) Docs plugin which allows for adding posts in a more documentation style format than the traditional forum post format.
To be honest I’m not sure which one I like more between the two. Gitbook has a nicer layout, more features, and is a bit more customizable. About your AI comment, Gitbook actually has AI already built-in which could save you from creating your own GPT.
On the other hand users tend to visit the forum when they have questions, so the ability to search the forum for their question and be presented with the relevant document without having to navigate to another platform is an advantage. Also a fun fact, Discourse has an AI plugin and multiple AI chatbots can be integrated (ChatGPT, Anthropic, Google Gemini, etc.), but those require we supply our own API keys, which means we’d have to pay for the API usage.
I’d be eager to hear opinions on which docs platform people prefer and find more useful. I do think we should only be using one source of truth for our official docs as that’s obviously more efficient as it does not require having to keep track of updating multiple docs across multiple platforms.
I think I would like to see you host your own documentation (raw text files or JSON or some other format) that I can link my GPT to. Then I can fine tune the GPT to respond how I like. You wouldn’t have to do anything more than keep the files up-to-date. My GPT will reference them to solve my problems. And, benefit to you, you don’t have to pay any api fees since I’m using my own. Think of it as a distributed Help system with a central library of Realmac truth.
just need a pdf for this