[rabidrat]

> As soon you need to talk about these things over and over you want to write these down.

This is the relevant part, to me. Can we do this documentation process JIT when someone asks about it? Maybe even convert the dialogue (in chat) or transcript of the conversation into the documentation.

[dgb23]

I just started to write anything down basically...

When a collaborator or client talks to me or when I think about something, then I open a markdown file (first often just a notes.md) and just write in bullet points, and gradually organize it into categories.

I put these in version control as well since a while.

Thought experiment: if something is not worth writing down, is it worth discussing?

[tsimionescu]

> Thought experiment: if something is not worth writing down, is it worth discussing?

Writing things down in a way that can be consumed by others is usually significantly more work than discussing that same thing live (whether in text or verbally). As such, I would say that the answer is obviously yes.

[rmdashrfstar]

Yes, there are many things worth discussing which would be better left not written down.

[pjmlp]

Not really because there isn't a JIT budget in most projects, and they usually only get allocated via escalations, some of which imply doing the work for free.