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# Creating documents

# ✍️ **Creating Documents**  
> **"From policies to patents, everything starts as a document."**  
> *Brainframe gives you 100+ industry-specific types to build a living knowledge base.*  

At Brainframe, everything is treated as a **document**.  
This simple yet powerful approach means you can manage policies, risks, assets, or even supplier contacts — all with the same consistent features.  

| Unlike traditional tools limited to Word, Excel, or PDFs, Brainframe offers 100+ preconfigured document types covering security, privacy, compliance, and operations.  

Most document types include:  
* 📋 **Unique properties**  
* 🗂 **Predefined templates**  
* 🆔 **Unique identifiers**  
* ✅ **Best-practice configurations**  

This broad vocabulary helps you describe your environment clearly while keeping your workspace structured and audit-ready.  

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## 1️⃣ How to Create a Document  

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1. Click the **New** button.  
2. Select the appropriate **document type** from the dropdown.  
3. Start working with its template and properties.  

| 📌 Tip: Choose the document type that most closely matches your process — this keeps reports, risks, and assets easy to categorize later.  

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## 2️⃣ Document Categories & Examples  

Brainframe groups its document types into categories, helping you find the right one faster.  

### 🔧 **Operational**  
* Action to take  
* Audit report  
* Core Business Service  
* Corrective or preventive action (CAPA)  

### 🛡 **Security**  
* Business Continuity Plan (BCP)  
* CIA Risk (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability)  
* ISMS Management Review Meeting   
* Policy / Procedure  

### 🔐 **Privacy**  
* Controller(s) of the data  
* Data processing activity  
* Data processing agreement (DPA)  
* Privacy objective KPI  

### 💻 **Digital Assets**  
* Backend system  
* Cloud infrastructure  
* Cloud SaaS product/service  
* Database  

### 🖥 **Software & Web**  
* Mobile app  
* Software  
* Software firewall  
* Source code repository  

### 🏢 **Physical Assets**  
* Building, office, or room  
* IoT device  
* IT room / Datacenter / Cloud provider  
* Physical asset 

### ⚖ **Legal**  
* Intellectual property  
* Legal risk  
* Non-disclosure agreement (NDA)  
* Patent, contract, certificate, proof of ownership  

### 👥 **People & Organizations**  
* Authority contact  
* Business risk  
* Consultant  
* Contact person  
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## 3️⃣ Best Practices  
* 📄 **Pick the right document type** – It improves search, reporting, and dependency mapping.  
* 🔄 **Leverage templates** – Start with prefilled structures to save time.  
* 👥 **Assign ownership** – Add responsible people or roles via properties.  
* 🛡 **Map dependencies early** – Connect assets, risks, and policies as you create them.  
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## 🎯 Visual Checklist  
* [x] Clicked **New** to create a document  
* [x] Selected the correct document type  
* [x] Used category filters (Operational, Security, Privacy, etc.)  
* [ ] Added unique properties for ownership & classification  
* [ ] Linked dependencies where relevant