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Is this feasible for people who have families and things to attend to outside of a life in technology? It seems to me that there is a lot of time and effort tha
by rmk 5y ago
Is this feasible for people who have families and things to attend to outside of a life in technology? It seems to me that there is a lot of time and effort that is expended into note-taking and note-keeping. This is generally something only University Professors or professional research people do. Practicing software engineers have some overlap, but rarely need to keep such notes or have spaced repetition etc. for work.
- knighthack 5y agoI'm a lawyer. Notes are absolutely crucial to my workflow, as there are literally millions of legal cases, and precedents, and you don't want to repeat yourself or repeat unnecessary research. I'd see it no differently than programmers who keep gists or repositories of useful configs.
- rmk 5y agoSure, I can see notes being very important for lawyers. But I don’t see that for software engineers and programmers. For a programmer, the facts are the code. The end. The code is what gets executed. Anything outside of it is secondary. This is of course besides persistent data that usually lives in some sort of database, and configuration, which falls outside of the other two buckets. None of these items require note keeping. Programmers learn by doing: taking notes is very much a peripheral activity there. So I’m struggling to understand why or how this is a big deal and the brouhaha about org-mode, zettelkasten and the like on HN!