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by Noumenon72 2230 days ago
It doesn't make sense to keep going over an ever-growing pile of notes, like a team of developers who's added so many features they don't have time to do anything but maintain them. You want to organize your notes so that you can go over them just when you need them -- when you're finally seeing that weird concurrency problem, that's when you skim over those notes you took on CountDownLatch or dining philosophers or whatever. So organize them and tag them so when the time comes, you can search for "composite key best practices" or "composing decorators" or whatever.

Usually you get a fair amount of review just from the stuff you read while searching for other stuff you know is in there somewhere.