I am a weird mixture of a developer and an author too, and "write to think" still helps me tremendously at least in the programming part of my career. I use Not

I am a weird mixture of a developer and an author too, and "write to think" still helps me tremendously at least in the programming part of my career. I use Notepad++ or Word instead of paper, but whenever I try to solve something more complicated, I write the ideas down first.