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A great looking app. I use the babel package built into emacs' org-mode. It's not for everyone though. It's worth investing in a tool like this. I find the ac

A great looking app. I use the babel package built into emacs' org-mode. It's not for everyone though. It's worth investing in a tool like this. I find the act of keeping a journal to be invaluable to developing my skills as a programmer. I find it serves two primary purposes. It first provides me a historical record of how my thinking has been changed and influenced. And it helps me to recall difficult subject matter in deep, complex domains. I tend to have limited brain capacity so it's nice to have a "database" of my thoughts to lean on.

lallysingh 12y ago
org is fantastic, and good note taking is how you manage work in large source bases. It has the added benefit that you can put your notes into git.
cpbotha 12y ago
Emacs org-mode with babel is definitely the bee's knees. I can intersperse org-mode markup (much richer than markdown) with syntax-highlighted and executable code snippets. I can export all of this to my wordpress blog or to great-looking LaTeX documents, or even to presentations using org-reveal. Here's an example of an exported org-mode file with math and graphics: http://vxlabs.com/2014/06/16/level-sets-the-practical-10-minute-introduction/ http://vxlabs.com/2014/06/16/level-sets-the-practical-10-min... Here's a simpler example with just Python snippets embedded: http://vxlabs.com/2014/11/12/getting-django-rest-framework-to-parse-docstrings-as-restructuredtext/ http://vxlabs.com/2014/11/12/getting-django-rest-framework-t...