How I take notes as a developer is quickly evolving
It might not be better.
But how I take notes has changed quite a bit, so I want to share my new approach. If you can even call it an approach…
I’ve written extensively in the past about personal knowledge management for software developers & why I believe notetaking is a superpower for developers.
I still think there are good practices in those articles. In fact, I’m hesitant to recommend my recent notetaking habits as good practices for other people.
In transparency, here’s what I’ve been doing.
Keep it simple
9 times out of 10, my notes revolve around daily tasks.
So, I’ve started keeping my notes organized by day. I just open a new note with today’s date whenever I want to write something down for a given day.
For many of my workflows, the daily note is good enough.
I could certainly arrange my notes by topic, project, or theme. But in my case, those disparate topical notes just make things more difficult to capture. I have to open a different file to write a note about one…
