I agree. After I graduated from college my first boss at work gave me a square deal notebook and told me to take a page of notes each day recording important de

I agree. After I graduated from college my first boss at work gave me a square deal notebook and told me to take a page of notes each day recording important details of what I worked in. This helped me HUGELY. I am retired now but in my last job managing a machine learning team at Capital One, I did the same thing except using Emacs and org mode, like recording good things that my reports did for their reviews, meeting notes (usually written up after the fact), tech ideas, etc. I also take notes on vacations, good recipes I run across, etc. EDIT: I think the act of writing things down helps my memory, regardless of future use of notes.