I suspect that you have some amount of experience that allows you to just do many of these things intuitively (possibly in your head without writing them down).

I suspect that you have some amount of experience that allows you to just do many of these things intuitively (possibly in your head without writing them down). For a beginner, I think it can be helpful to have a detailed procedure to follow that takes them from start to finish. That way they can focus mental energy on the problem at hand while not having to worry that they may be working through the problem using a method that is inefficient or that may never get results.