summary of the OA: note taking is helpful reaction: agreed. best practice and known as such for a long time I write notes in a plain text file for every proje

summary of the OA: note taking is helpful reaction: agreed. best practice and known as such for a long time I write notes in a plain text file for every project I work on. As I start to see things accumulate around a particular tool, technology or service (or any other common or cross-cutting concern), I eventually carve those note portions out of my per-project notes, clean them up and merge them into a notes file dedicated to that thing. I also look for portions of my notes worth extracting and transforming into executable scripts, complete with variables or templates where makes sense. Plain text notes are also easy to search, version and replicate around. Can upgrade some to Markdown or another structured text format where yields net value. Rinse and repeat. These habits yield increasing ROIs over one's life and career.