Keeping Notes As A Developer(danielmcgraw.com)

4 pointsby d_mcgraw15 lat temu7 comments

http://danielmcgraw.com/2010/12/16/Keeping-Notes-As-A-Developer/

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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.

d_mcgraw15 lat temu

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

rawsyntax15 lat temu

I take notes in an emacs buffer

d_mcgraw15 lat temu

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

rawsyntax15 lat temu

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)

farout15 lat temu

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

d_mcgraw15 lat temu

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.