Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?

Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips? by ra7 on Friday May 08, 2020 @06:52PM (#23120402)

I want to take notes everyday, but I keep getting bogged down by how to organize those notes so I can "look back" efficiently. Essentially, I want to avoid taking so much notes that I'm reluctant to search for something because I haven't organized it well. Do you think the ISO date name method is working well for you?

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips? by chadlavi on Friday May 08, 2020 @06:57PM (#23120451)

It's mostly for sorting and context. I just do a straight up search (in my case in vscode) across all notes when I want to find notes about something particular.

Really the most important thing to do is just start taking notes. You can reorganize later if you need to.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips? by stevekemp on Saturday May 09, 2020 @03:02AM (#23122851)

I just have a simple header for each day:

   # 09/05/2020
   Today I mostly ate cake

   ## Discoveries
   ## Meetings
   ## Projects
   - Worked on project 1
     - Fixed issue <link>
     - TODO: Bugfix #1234
   ## Misc

So a fixed set of headers for each day "Projects", "Meetings", "Discoveries", "Misc", and free-form text. Sometimes I copy/paste commands and output.

Searching is pretty much just grep.

More detail here https://blog.steve.fi/keeping_a_simple_markdown_work_log__vi...

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