I found that having an offline-first mentality helps with slowing down and actually acquiring a deeper understanding of the topic you're dealing with. I'm keep

I found that having an offline-first mentality helps with slowing down and actually acquiring a deeper understanding of the topic you're dealing with. I'm keeping offline docs for most of the tools I use. For example the Postgres manual is easy to browse offline, and offers a lot of insight into how the db engine works, much more than searching for random bits on SO. These docs are stored locally on my machine as html files. I have an nginx running just to browse them more easily at http://localhost/doc/ http://localhost/doc/ Also writing down things as you learn helps tremendously. I use Zim which is a local wiki application. It's easy to use and I have separate notebooks for different things (like work, programming, etc). This pattern pretty much mirrors what you would do in school.