[freedomben]

Same. The more busy and more I have to multi-task and/or manage multiple long-running threads, the more it helps.

Here's a real example: Just this morning I was setting up my new 13th gen framework laptop (it's amazing btw, thank you to framework for making Fedora such a great experience on it!), and I hit Ctrl+r in my terminal to find a previous command. I was surprised to see the standard bash handler instead of the fancy terminal history tool that I installed on my previous laptop. Using my notes I was able to quickly find that the tool is "atuin" and I was able to see exactly what commands I ran to set it up back in the day. This is a tool that doesn't have a great installation story for Fedora. I ended up building rom source and installing, and I'm not a rust person so I would have to look that all up had it not been in my notes. I didn't have time for a long distraction, and my notes saved me on that. It probably adds a 10% to 20% overhead of effort to the original task, but then saves me time in the future.

I have also benefitted greatly from numerous notes on customers/clients that I can pull up and see quickly what the last thing I did/said to them was. After months of not talking to them, it's very easy to forget or blend their details into other customers. The notes can be life savers.

There have also been times when I needed to do some technical task and I remembered having done it years earlier. Finding those notes can be an incredible time saver, especially when it skips me past the first couple hours of research!