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How do you keep SOPs/process docs or any kind of documentation from going stale?

I’m trying to improve how internal documentation is maintained after it is created.

We are currently mostly using Notion but some older ones are spread across Google Docs and PDFs.

The part I’m trying to figure out is the upkeep:

- who owns each SOP/process doc

- when it was last reviewed

- when it needs to be reviewed again

- how outdated steps get flagged

- whether employees need to acknowledge important procedures

- how managers see which docs are overdue or stale

For people running or managing small teams, do you track this in a spreadsheet/tool, or is it mostly manual?

How do you manage SOP ownership and review cycles?

I’m looking into a problem I’ve seen in small teams: SOPs exist, but after a few months nobody knows whether they are still accurate.

The actual documents may be in Notion, SharePoint, Google Docs, Confluence, etc. The issue is more about control:

- every SOP having an owner

- review cadence

- due/overdue status

- employee acknowledgement

- stale procedure flags

- manager digest/reporting

Is this something operations teams care about, or is this usually handled well enough inside existing tools?