Keeping Notes As A Developer

Another tip for a physical notebook: starting from the back, keep a running table of contents referring to notes pages or dates. Log really important stuff, or everything, according to taste.

Re: Keeping Notes As A Developer

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Post by d_mcgraw » Mon, Apr 18, 2011, 7:06 PM UTC

sixtofour wrote: post #4

Another tip for a physical notebook: starting from the back, keep a running table of contents referring to notes pages or dates. Log really important stuff, or everything, according to taste.

Thats a rad tip! I'm totally going to start doing that.

Re: Keeping Notes As A Developer

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Post by farout » Mon, Apr 18, 2011, 7:10 PM UTC

evernote can be addictive; however it mangles code bits

I use a text editor along side with the IDE so I can add notes as I code;the same way as physical notebook but I can paste code bits in there

Re: Keeping Notes As A Developer

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Post by d_mcgraw » Mon, Apr 18, 2011, 7:16 PM UTC

farout wrote: post #6

evernote can be addictive; however it mangles code bits I use a text editor along side with the IDE so I can add notes as I code;the same way as physical notebook but I can paste code bits in there

I've tried using Evernote and Dropbox, but could never make it work the way I wanted hence the motivation to work out keeping note in an ordered way in my notebooks.

Re: Keeping Notes As A Developer

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Post by rawsyntax » Tue, Apr 19, 2011, 4:08 AM UTC

d_mcgraw wrote: post #3

rawsyntax wrote: post #2

I take notes in an emacs buffer

Thats not a bad idea, but whats your scheme for keeping them referenced and correlated?

I make a text file per project.. and remove items as they are completed.. If the notes are more complex than that, typically it goes into the bug tracker (redmine, or similar)