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Re:The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep... by tehjoker on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @07:46PM (#23775526)
I do the same, but using paper notebooks. I was able to accurately fill out a financial report because of the notes I took over a year ago on a large processing job. It's very helpful to do and organizes my thoughts. Using paper also lets you draw when needed and sketch out how an algorithm should work.
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Re:The more senior your job title, the more you need to keep... by Wistar on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @09:08PM (#23776016)
Spot on. The evidential value of a consistently written log can be huge and important for a wide variety of reasons. I have had two situations in my life where my having kept dated notes spared me a whole lot of grief.
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