In my experience there's not much risk of having a "huge bloated mess" so write more rather than less. I keep all my work-related knowledge in just a single fl

In my experience there's not much risk of having a "huge bloated mess" so write more rather than less. I keep all my work-related knowledge in just a single flat text file, which after four years at my current company is just under 20,000 lines long and ~750 KB. It's easy to grep and so I can find virtually anything quickly. I think trying to get too fancy with organization could lead to troubles. A badly-organized knowledge base is hard to fix. Most of the time I'm just kicking myself that I didn't write down something that I was sure was in there.