A while ago, I wrote a little about what to include in a README for a project (https://matthiasott.com/notes/how-to-readme).

I now also created and published a README template Iโ€™ll use in upcoming projects. I hope it is useful! Any contributions or corrections are very welcome. ๐Ÿค—

https://github.com/matthiasott/README-template

How To README ยท Matthias Ott โ€“ User Experience Designer

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.

Matthias Ott โ€“ User Experience Designer
BTW, I automatically generated the table of contents for the README with doctoc: https://github.com/thlorenz/doctoc
Will write a short post about it after lunch. ๐Ÿœ
GitHub - thlorenz/doctoc: ๐Ÿ“œ Generates table of contents for markdown files inside local git repository. Links are compatible with anchors generated by github or other sites.

๐Ÿ“œ Generates table of contents for markdown files inside local git repository. Links are compatible with anchors generated by github or other sites. - GitHub - thlorenz/doctoc: ๐Ÿ“œ Generates table of ...

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A README Template โ€“ With an Automatically Generated Table of Contents ยท Matthias Ott โ€“ User Experience Designer

Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and developer from Stuttgart, Germany. Besides design practice he teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel.

Matthias Ott โ€“ User Experience Designer