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Might I suggest paper notes again? The mental state we go into when jotting things down on paper physically combined with the flexibility seems a shame to have
by nstart 10y ago
Might I suggest paper notes again? The mental state we go into when jotting things down on paper physically combined with the flexibility seems a shame to have lost.
I agree on search which is why I keep a digital index I update every few days. So even a year and a couple of notebooks later I search for something like "notes sql" on evernote and will get back results like "book 4 page 13 sql notes on sharding". I just need to dig book 4 out of my little plastic box I keep my notebooks in and refer :)
- criddell 10y agoClearly, you're familiar with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_software_engineering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_softwar...
- nstart 10y agoMaybe. But in a both humorous and serious sense, this isn't a question of complexity being abstracted is it? It's simply transferring a solution to another medium. If not for software I'd solve the indexing issue the same way I would with paper. I'd have one paper that acts as an index across my books. Instead of using paper though I'm using a digital medium. So is that a case of abstraction?