--- title: "Innovation" description: "Posts in the innovation category explore new trends, techniques, or other ways of creating new approaches toward tech comm. Innovation and creativity are the hallmarks of an intellectually stimulated mind,..." canonical_url: https://idratherbewriting.com/category-innovation/index.html --- > For AI agents: a documentation index is available at https://idratherbewriting.com/llms.txt. Markdown versions of all pages are available by appending .md to any page URL. # Innovation Posts in the innovation category explore new trends, techniques, or other ways of creating new approaches toward tech comm. Innovation and creativity are the hallmarks of an intellectually stimulated mind, and I lean toward experimentation, openness, and try-and-fail approaches on my blog and in my work. The following content is in the **innovation** category: #### [Seeing invisible details and avoiding predictable, conditioned thought (ZAMM series)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/seeing-invisible-and-avoiding-predictive-thought) | Jun 26, 2024 #### [What is Diátaxis and should you be using it with your documentation?](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/what-is-diataxis-documentation-framework) | Oct 18, 2023 #### [Links from around the web (Sept 5, 2023)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/links-from-web-sept5-2023) | Sep 5, 2023 #### [Doctave Q&A with Niklas Begley](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/doctave-qa-niklas-begley) | Jun 8, 2023 #### [AI starting to diminish work for student essay ghostwriters](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-diminishing-academic-ghostwriters-cheating) | May 19, 2023 #### [From DITA to docs-as-code and Docusaurus: Q&A with Mike Howes](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/docusaurus-questions-and-answers-howes) | May 16, 2023 #### [Newsletter: Copilot for Docs, Wappalyzer, Illusions, Late projects, Forbidden Fruit](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/copilot-illusions-late-projects-forbidden) | May 11, 2023 #### [Newsletter: Doctave, Chatbase, SiteGPT, small CLs, TC bibliography](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/doctave-microchat-small-cls-bibliography) | May 9, 2023 #### [Newsletter: AI doc alerts, state of tools, saying easy or just, automated writing teams](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/ai-alerts-tools-easy-automated-teams) | May 2, 2023 #### [Faceted filtering](https://idratherbewriting.com/trends/trends-to-follow-or-forget-faceted-filtering.html) | Feb 25, 2022 #### [Intro to the series: Trends to follow or forget](https://idratherbewriting.com/trends/trends-to-follow-or-forget-intro.html) | Feb 22, 2022 #### [Results of the survey about fizzled trends: Every trend is still with us](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/results-of-fizzled-trends-survey) | Feb 8, 2022 #### [Survey about documentation trends that fizzled (one-minute survey)](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/trends-that-faded-survey) | Feb 2, 2022 #### [Site update: Switched from Disqus to Commento](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/switch-from-disqus-to-commento/) | Jan 30, 2020 #### [How to become a 10X technical writer in the workplace](https://idratherbewriting.com/2019/02/07/how-to-become-a-10x-technical-writer-in-the-workplace/) | Feb 7, 2019 #### [Write the Docs Podcast episode 9: Chatbots in Documentation](https://idratherbewriting.com/2017/09/19/chatbots-in-documentation/) | Sep 19, 2017 #### [Applying Tim Ferriss' 4-hour work week rules to tech comm projects](https://idratherbewriting.com/2016/07/20/apply-80-20-rule-to-project-management-tech-comm/) | Jul 20, 2016 #### [Version 3.0 of my Documentation theme for Jekyll released](https://idratherbewriting.com/2015/08/13/version-3-jekyll-documentation-theme-released/) | Aug 13, 2015 #### [Recording of Innovation in Technical Communication keynote at tcworld India 2015](https://idratherbewriting.com/2015/03/18/recording-of-innovation-in-technical-communication-keynote-at-tcworld-india-2015/) | Mar 18, 2015 #### [Some web tools worth using in help solutions](https://idratherbewriting.com/2015/02/26/some-web-tools-worth-using-in-help-solutions/) | Feb 26, 2015 #### [Piggybacking onto the innovation of the web](https://idratherbewriting.com/2015/02/24/piggybacking-onto-the-innovation-of-the-web/) | Feb 24, 2015 #### [The genius of Github and how it can transform tech comm](https://idratherbewriting.com/2015/02/18/the-genius-of-github/) | Feb 18, 2015 #### [Sustaining and disruptive innovations](https://idratherbewriting.com/2015/02/10/sustaining-and-disruptive-innovations/) | Feb 10, 2015