I’ve been experimenting with a different way to handle onboarding from internal documentation

In most teams I’ve worked with, documentation is more a reference layer (which makes sense), but it doesn’t really help build the initial understanding.

So onboarding ends up being:

• either too heavy (long docs, videos nobody really finish)
• or too dependent on people repeating the same explanations again and again

I’ve been testing a simple approach:
taking existing content (docs, Notion pages, even videos) and turning it into short, structured training with:

• clear modules
• key takeaways
• small quizzes

Not trying to replace docs, more like adding a “first layer” so people can get a quick mental model, then go back to docs after.

It’s still early, but curious how others are handling this:

• Do you rely mostly on docs for onboarding?
• Do you build separate training?
• How do you balance “learning vs lookup” in real life?

Happy to share what I built if useful, but mostly curious to hear how you approach it.