How to Structure Technical Documentation: A Diátaxis Guide [2026]

You know the feeling. You land on a project&rsquo;s docs page to solve one specific problem — &ldquo;how do I configure the timeout?&rdquo; — and you get a wall of prose that explains the product&rsquo;s philosophy for three paragraphs before getting to anything usable. Or worse: the page is called a &ldquo;tutorial&rdquo; but it&rsquo;s actually a list of commands with zero context, and you have…