My rate of reference is pretty high. I have a job that involves a lot of research projects. My process often goes like this: 1. Someone calls me with a project

My rate of reference is pretty high. I have a job that involves a lot of research projects. My process often goes like this: 1. Someone calls me with a project. I take notes about what they need. 2. I look at my notes to figure out what to research. ' 3. As I do the research, I take notes about the results 4. I look at my notes to draft an e-mail or memo about the research 5. I look back at my notes from the call to make sure I got what they wanted Another task I often have is having a call with someone (sometimes a very long call) and then writing an e-mail about it: 1. Take notes on the call 2. Draft e-mail based on notes 3. Review notes to make sure the e-mail encompasses everything I definitely refer to old notes less. But here are some examples where I constantly refer back: 1. I have a note with the terminal command to strip Mac OS system files from .zip files. I refer back to that a lot. 2. I have notes about my wife's favorite takeout orders that I check before I put the orders in. 3. I have a long note called "Python Dev Stuff" that describes how to set up my Python environment, that I look at whenever I get a new laptop or do a major OS update. 4. I have a "blog post ideas" note where I write down ideas for blog posts. When I want to do a post and can't think of what to write about, I look at that note.