[Heyso]

I take notes of (almost) everything I work on. What links I went to, screenshot or snippets of relevant information, current thought. The structure is simple, a folder for the project, and one .md file per day.

It helps me think by writing thing down, free brain memory space and reduces browser tabs number. It gives me an history of what I tried put earlier to solve my issue. It also give me something to say if anybody ask what I have been doing these past weeks or months (employer, recruiter). Finally, if I ever get a similar bug, I have a good chance to find some help from my past self with ctrl-shift-f. I write my notes with webstorm.

[Noumenon72]

Yes, people like us aren't taking notes to "get lost in our knowledge management system", we're taking them because we are going to need them. People will ask us why we use a best practice, we'll encounter the same bug a second time, or we'll spend a year away from a language and forget. I don't take any notes just to have a complete library of notes. Only ones that I know I will look for again.