Top 10 Paid Documentation Templates

Say goodbye to scattered, outdated documentation. It's easy to create seamless documentation processes with Notion's easy-to-use templates for policies, research findings, and creative briefs.

What Should Documentation Templates Include?

Choosing the right documentation template in Notion can streamline your workflow and enhance your project's clarity. Here are key components to look for when selecting a template:

  1. Comprehensive Index: A well-organized index helps users navigate through documents quickly, ensuring that all information is easily accessible.

  2. Integration Capabilities: The template should support integrations with other tools and platforms, which is essential for maintaining a seamless workflow.

  3. Customization Options: Look for templates that allow you to modify elements to suit your project's specific needs without compromising the design integrity.

  4. Update and Revision Tracking: A good template will include features for tracking changes and updates, which is vital for keeping documentation current and reliable.

Selecting a documentation template with these components will ensure that your material is not only well-organized but also adaptable and up-to-date with your project's demands.

What Should Documentation Templates Avoid?

Choosing the right documentation template in Notion can streamline your workflow and enhance your project's clarity. However, it's equally important to know what to avoid in a template to ensure it serves your needs effectively.

  1. Overly Complex Structures: Avoid templates with complicated hierarchies or too many nested pages that can make navigation confusing and hinder quick access to information.

  2. Excessive Use of Widgets: While widgets can add functionality, too many can slow down your Notion page and clutter your workspace, detracting from the template’s usability.

  3. Generic Content: Steer clear of templates that are not adaptable to your specific project needs. Templates should serve as a helpful starting point, not as a constraint.

Selecting a documentation template that avoids these pitfalls will ensure that you have a tool that enhances productivity without adding unnecessary complexity or inefficiency to your projects.

1Ultimate Business Wiki Dashboard | CRM

Organising and structuring for a fast-growing business can be tricky, but we're here to simplify it. Introducing the 'Business Wiki Notion Dashboard', your go-to organisational tool that brings clarity to your agency's operations. It's built to support your entire team, from managing client details to streamlining internal processes.

🔍 Who's It For?
Perfect for small to medium-sized businesses, agency owners, and creative teams seeking an organised and efficient way to manage their internal resources, client information, and project records. It is perfect for design-based or creative businesses.

🌈 What's Inside?
- Internal Resources: A section where you can introduce your business & core values and gather important improvement ideas.
- Client Management: Easy access to client lists (CRM template), email templates, and briefs, ensuring client communications is smooth.
- Record Keeping: Keep tabs on weekly meetings and tasks with an integrated record system.
- Employee Hub: A space to keep useful resources like onboarding and time-off requests.
- Apps & Tools: A database of curated apps and top mockups available for your team to use. Free 85+ Free and Paid mockups list is inside for reference.
- Guides: A comprehensive library where you can upload your own file guidelines, review protocols and learning guides. Free ‘Self-check Design guideline’ included for design agencies.

💡 Why You'll Love It:
- Time-Saving: With quick access to resources and records, you’ll spend less time searching and more time creating.
- Tailored to Agencies: Every category and template is crafted with the needs of agencies in mind.
- Scalable: As your business grows, so does your Agency Wiki, making it the only Notion Dashboard you’ll ever need.
- Unique: The template is easily adjustable to accommodate to your own business needs.
- Note: some pages are empty and only provide you structure to fill it with your individual business information.

A template preview for Ultimate Business Wiki Dashboard | CRM

2Game Design Document (GDD)

Introducing the 'Game Design Document (GDD) - Ultimate Notion Template' – an indispensable tool for indie developers, providing the means to craft exceptional games with unparalleled clarity and precision. This foundational blueprint offers more than just direction; it ensures projects stay on course, and creativity thrives within established parameters. It acts as a constant reference point and lays the foundation for future iterations. Thanks to the robust capabilities of Notion's platform, this meticulously designed template revolutionizes game development, delivering a comprehensive framework for achieving success.

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3Small Business Operations Manual

Read "The E-myth" but struggling to create an operations manual for your small business? All your systems are in your head but don't know how to extract and/or neatly organize them within a centralized hub that is also easy to navigate for you and your team?

Don't spend hours trying to create your operations manual from scratch. This Small Business Operations Manual template is pre-built with standard and best practices in small business operations and well-structured with a user-friendly design.

Perfect for small business owners who want to get completely organized and streamlined by centralizing their business's knowledge hub, implement structured systems in their business, save time on admin work, train their people faster/easier, and ensure seamless daily operations.

A template preview for Small Business Operations Manual

4Design System Planner

This theme design system will help you in your project. Tested and found successful in 2 major projects. Purchase and contact me for detailed planning.

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5Product Strategy: Templates + Guide

Our Product Strategy Bundle provides a full spectrum of essential tools for strategic product planning. With guides and templates covering North Star Metric, SWOT Analysis, Ansoff Matrix, Blue Ocean Strategy, Value Proposition Matrix, and Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD), it simplifies the process of creating a solid product strategy.

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6Software Spec Document

Documentation should be fun and has purpose! Not everyone likes to document their work but think of it this way that it could be helpful for your team mater, juniors and even yourself in having concrete documents that can be used to align with your client or boss and your team!

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7ULTIMATE Project & Task Manager - Advanced Version

Advanced Version (Sprints Included)

Are you interested in the ULTIMATE project and task manager? This template is designed so that you can go seamlessly from projects, and tasks, to sprints. We also include additional features for planning and review, team pages, calendars, and more!

🤍 This version will work well for bigger teams of 3-10 people and every team size with a strong focus on product development. You would want to consider this version if you are looking for a way to have focused timeframes, efficient planning, and strong collaboration among members.*

💼 Projects: The projects database allows you to store your projects, view them in timeline view, and move them through different stages such as planning, in progress, and more! Each project is connected to tasks so that you can calculate your progress, hours spent, as well as planning & review sections.

✅ Tasks: Tasks can be seamlessly connected to sprints and projects so that you know exactly what you need to do to progress. If you don’t want to use a sprint-based approach, you can also use a backlog to track your current tasks.

➖ Sub-Tasks: Each task comes connected with sub-tasks that will show up on the task. Break down large tasks into smaller sections!

👥 Team Page: This is a central page where you can store your team’s directory, working hours, and contact information. This is a great way to keep track of everyone and also see team meetings and availability.

🗓️ Calendars: We combined all calendars across this template into one place. See your dated tasks, projects, team calendar, and sprints in one place!

🧭 Easy Navigation: A handy sidebar is on all pages where you can access important pages easily. We also include a “Home” button to get back to the main dashboard.

👟 Sprints: The Sprints page allows you to complete and create new sprints and track their progress. Each sprint comes with a planning section where you can easily move your relevant tasks for that sprint. Set a period of your choice for the sprint as well!

✍🏻 Sprint Planning & Review: Sprints and projects come with a planning & review section so you can brainstorm and review individually or as a team. The Sprint planning page can allow you to connect your tasks to your sprints when you start the sprint.

A template preview for ULTIMATE Project & Task Manager - Advanced Version

8Design Management Templates

I know firsthand how challenging it can be to keep track of everything when managing a design team. But with these templates, it's a total game-changer. They've been tried and tested by my team, and they include easy-to-follow practices such as weekly planning meetings, design critique sessions, and setting weekly goals.

But that's not all. One of the most significant advantages that these templates provide is automation. They help make the processes self-sustaining. Plus, they bring the team together and promote transparency.

So, if you're tired of feeling overwhelmed and disorganised with your design team, you need to try these Notion templates.

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9Airbnb Business Operations Manual

Ideal for any Airbnb business owner who wants to keep a clean, organized, and easy-to-navigate single source of knowledge for their business and team. Pre-packed with 60+ sections of standard and best practices in Airbnb operations.

Your Operations Manual is a one-stop-shop of operation essentials for your business. It includes your business systems, processes, SOPs, checklists, templates, best practices... It tells your employees: "This is how we do things here". Think of it as your "business playbook".

This Airbnb Business Operations Manual is ideal for short-term rental business owners who want to get completely organized and streamlined by centralizing their business's knowledge hub, implement structured systems in their business, save time on admin work, and ensure seamless onboarding and daily operations.

A template preview for Airbnb Business Operations Manual

10Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

Use this template to create your company SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) in Notion. A standard operating procedure is a step-by-step set of instructions that helps employees perform their tasks in an efficient manner.

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Closing Thoughts

Investing in premium templates can dramatically streamline your documentation process, enhancing both efficiency and clarity. These tools are designed to save you time and effort.

By adopting these templates, you're not just organizing your work better; you're also setting a professional standard that impresses stakeholders. Take action today to elevate your documentation strategy.

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