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Has anyone tried recording everything they do all day on the computer and then reviewing it when they have questions?

dottedmag 5y ago
I have a shell history with the limit of 1M lines, and shells append to it, not overwrite it on exit. I never have to review (except occasional grep something ~/.zsh_history), but I find myself typing Ctrl-R to find commands in history all the time.
- jve 5y ago
  Same for me. Windows PowerShell now conveniently comes with PSReadLine, that enables to just hit on CTRL+R, write some keywords (and maybe after few more CTRL+R hits), and that historical command pops out whenever I need it. Even better, newer versions support predictions [0] - which, whenever you type any text, it immediately lists multiple commands where it finds a match. Of course, that addresses only myself, but not whoever touches the project. As well, I may not know in what context that command was ran. So I appreciate some suggestions here that guide toward making scripts and providing useful info in README. [0] https://youtu.be/VT2L1SXFq9U?t=2594 https://youtu.be/VT2L1SXFq9U?t=2594
  - majkinetor 5y ago
    Use Invoke-Build as portal to other scripts in the repo. Document scripts using README.md in their own folder. Then users of your project can type `ib ?` to get the list of available scripts and ib itself will setup context of their execution as needed.
- thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
  There's also nifty Windows application called Ditto - basically a searchable history of the system clipboard. Any time there's any complex command or a snippet, I intuitively just highlight it (in Putty) or CTRL+C it Log in to our Postgres? that's `psql` something something. CTRL + ALT + V, type psql - there it is PGPASSWORD=pass1234 psql -h our-database-dev.abcdefg.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com -U acme maindb Press Enter to automatically enter it in currently active window
- tqwhite 5y ago
  I haven't had it long enough to have an opinion about it's virtue yet but I found this interesting tool recently... https://loshadki.app/shellhistory/ https://loshadki.app/shellhistory/
lambdaba 5y ago
I have not tried it but this is where an enhanced shell history (particularly with cwd) might come in handy: https://github.com/ellie/atuin https://github.com/ellie/atuin
tqwhite 5y ago
As someone above said, history | grep -i "whatever I want to remember"
dplgk 5y ago
If I'm working on something pretty tedious, I'll record a screen capture explaining what I was doing and where I left off.

I have a shell history with the limit of 1M lines, and shells append to it, not overwrite it on exit. I never have to review (except occasional grep something ~/.zsh_history), but I find myself typing Ctrl-R to find commands in history all the time.

jve 5y ago
Same for me. Windows PowerShell now conveniently comes with PSReadLine, that enables to just hit on CTRL+R, write some keywords (and maybe after few more CTRL+R hits), and that historical command pops out whenever I need it. Even better, newer versions support predictions [0] - which, whenever you type any text, it immediately lists multiple commands where it finds a match. Of course, that addresses only myself, but not whoever touches the project. As well, I may not know in what context that command was ran. So I appreciate some suggestions here that guide toward making scripts and providing useful info in README. [0] https://youtu.be/VT2L1SXFq9U?t=2594 https://youtu.be/VT2L1SXFq9U?t=2594
- majkinetor 5y ago
  Use Invoke-Build as portal to other scripts in the repo. Document scripts using README.md in their own folder. Then users of your project can type `ib ?` to get the list of available scripts and ib itself will setup context of their execution as needed.
thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
There's also nifty Windows application called Ditto - basically a searchable history of the system clipboard. Any time there's any complex command or a snippet, I intuitively just highlight it (in Putty) or CTRL+C it Log in to our Postgres? that's `psql` something something. CTRL + ALT + V, type psql - there it is PGPASSWORD=pass1234 psql -h our-database-dev.abcdefg.us-east-1.rds.amazonaws.com -U acme maindb Press Enter to automatically enter it in currently active window
tqwhite 5y ago
I haven't had it long enough to have an opinion about it's virtue yet but I found this interesting tool recently... https://loshadki.app/shellhistory/ https://loshadki.app/shellhistory/

lambdaba 5y ago

I have not tried it but this is where an enhanced shell history (particularly with cwd) might come in handy: https://github.com/ellie/atuin https://github.com/ellie/atuin

tqwhite 5y ago

As someone above said, history | grep -i "whatever I want to remember"

dplgk 5y ago

If I'm working on something pretty tedious, I'll record a screen capture explaining what I was doing and where I left off.