Opening Business Box: BookStack

Any company creates hundreds and thousands of documents as it works. All of that has to be put in order and stored. But what if a company works without an office from the start, or has moved to remote work? Dedicated tools for structuring and storing documents are needed. 

BookStack is a universal open source service for storing working documents. 

The structure and particulars of the service 

The BookStack platform is built on PHP, which simplifies integrating it with other services, extending it and adding functionality. The system's key idea is maximum simplicity and intuitiveness. 

The menu structure and the working principle are built on the image of a book, its chapters and its pages. 

There is a built-in WYSIWYG editor, so the user does not have to remember special commands or markup. 

What BookStack can do 

Let us look at BookStack's capabilities and advantages: 

• A free, open source program. The tool is entirely free and the code can be found on GitHub. You can download the distribution and install it on your own server. 
• Simplicity. The developers made BookStack as simple and intuitive as they could. The WYSIWYG interface speeds up work with content, and all the files are divided across three levels: books, chapters, pages. 
• Convenient search at every level. You will be able to find the information you need. Documents can also carry links to other files, so information can be organised on the principle of a book and of Wikipedia at once, with any number of hyperlinks. 
• Flexible settings. You can adapt the system to your needs, and change the registration settings, the logos, the project names and other options. 
• Minimal system requirements. The product is built on the Laravel framework and uses MySQL. The developers made it as productive as possible, and the system will run reliably and quickly even on a VPS of minimal capacity. 
• An additional markup editor. If you find a markup editor more convenient, BookStack offers one. It has a preview function built in for the documents you are editing. 
• Powerful functions. Besides powerful search and links, there is sorting by books, page editing and image management. A system of roles and permissions lets you lock content and actions when needed.

Summary 

Using BookStack together with a CRM, Leantime and the other tools from Business Box, you will be able to gather, sort and process documents in different formats. The storage can be used for photographs, scans and PDF files. 

BookStack improves document flow and solves other tasks around working on files together. 

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