Offline Docs for API reference

Priyank Trivedi
progstories
Published in
2 min readNov 6, 2016

Increase your productivity by using Offline Docs apps for Mac, Linux and Windows.

If you’re one of those programmers who is working on multiple technology stacks, it’s quite likely that you need to wrap your head around a lot of APIs. Therefore, it’s quite likely that you may forget some of the APIs and will need to check documentation often.

Offline Docsets help you lookup API for your module/ programming language as the name suggests in an offline manner. This takes away the hassle of actually looking through documentation online and wasting a lot of time if you have an unstable internet connection.

Dash for MacOS

If you’re on MacOS, Dash is a perfect tool for you. It easily integrates with all IDEs out there.

Downloading new Docsets.

Zeal for Linux and Windows

If you’re on one of the debian based systems or Windows OS, Zeal is the right tool for you. More details on downloads here.

Docsets Updates

All of your downloaded docsets are easily downloaded as and when they’re updated. You can change the sync operation frequency from ‘Preference’ option.

Python 2.7.13 and Docker 1.12.5 update.

So next time when you’re struggling to search for documentation online for a module, you know what you’re missing and what you should be doing instead!

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Priyank Trivedi
progstories

Writes on Python, Golang. Internet of Things and Data Analytics