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Re:Ask HN: Does this exist or would it appeal? by michaell2 on Thursday March 28, 2013 @03:25PM (#5457077)
don't know of any such tools, so instead I perform the task manually. If I want to better understand how some feature works, I write down in a text file what methods are involved, what method calls which etc. That way at any given time I have to answer fairly simple questions, but the accumulated info in the notes can then be used for more sophisticated reasoning. In other words, analysis :)
Re:Ask HN: Does this exist or would it appeal? by davidfm on Monday April 01, 2013 @07:36AM (#5472435)
That's exactly what I find myself doing, but: I don't like paper As things change I find myself rewriting the same stuff over and over It feels like it should be easier/more effective if automated
Re:Ask HN: Does this exist or would it appeal? by michaell2 on Monday April 01, 2013 @11:13AM (#5473507)
yep, that's why my comment mentioned using a text file for notes, not paper. I usually edit it using IDE rather than text editor to take advantage of the convenient cut-paste a line of text with CTRL-X / CTRL-V without highlighting by mouse.

Then again, my nestgrid project http://www.nestgrid.org (the desktop version) is IMHO, among other things. the future of this sort of notes taking but I have not yet gotten around to using it "in production".