Have a dumping ground for your ideas It’s important to have a dumping ground for ideas when you are on the go. This can be a notepad, google keep, an email to yourself, or whatever method you have for writing reminders. At first I tried adding drafts to my wordpress site. I found it too easy to forget about the topic this way, though, and did not like the lack of oranization tools....
Note-taking Every new technology or topic I approach gets its own directory. I dump everything I learn into it in the form of text files: steps taken when learning something new; stack traces and conditions to reproduce; troubleshooting steps; solutions or non-solutions (discovering a way to NOT solve a problem is progress too!) quick and dirty blog post drafts The reason for text files is two-fold: they’re easily version-controlled, and they’re easily searchable via grep....
I love my productivity apps. I like to experience all the things. There’s a lot of redundancy, and not much automated information flow, but I’ve developed a system that helps me internalize where a particular type of information is stored, so I can find it when I need it. The Web Apps Wunderlist Category: task dumping ground Key features Starring The Inbox Grouping Reminders Wunderlist helps meta-management-mode me keep follow-all-the-distractions me in line....