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How Knowledge differs — by capability

Wikis and knowledge bases are great places to write things down. Knowledge is a different thing — it understands your code and keeps the knowledge true on its own. A fair, category-level comparison.

Capability comparison

BELA Engineering Knowledge · Wikis & knowledge bases (e.g. Confluence, Notion, GitBook, SharePoint).

CapabilityBELA Engineering KnowledgeWikis & knowledge bases
Stores pages you write
Understands your actual code
Generates documentation from the code
Stays current as software changes
Answers grounded in real code
Understands APIs & databases
Preserves engineering decisionsPartly

The honest summary

If your team writes documentation by hand, a wiki like Confluence or Notion is a fine home for it — and Knowledge can complement it. The difference is that Knowledge derives understanding from your code and keeps it true automatically, so it never goes stale the way hand-written pages do.

See the difference on your code

Bring a repository and watch it get understood.

How it works