[Gllug] Human memory

[David L Neil]

How do you keep a note of system tweaks, notes from learning about new 
pkgs, etc?


In the recent "To partition or not to partition" thread, one of our 
number said: "The rationale for this change is lost in the mists of 
time. My memory's rubbish about such things  :-) " which struck a 
resonant chord in my memory-challenged befuddlement.

For many years now I have resorted to using a 'lab book'* It records 
both the rationale for operational changes and tweaks#, and contains 
(copious) notes made whilst learning new topics and even useful snippets 
from sources such as this list.

The trouble is that such pages are single-index and even if I manage to 
keep a contents page, retrieval can be awkward. I used a wiki for one 
learning project, but (not knowing how to structure the topic in 
advance) found similar difficulties once the volume of information grew 
beyond a handful of wiki-pages.


Do you use a tool for this job (beyond your own memory)? How about Trac 
with its wiki for notes and the 'issues' side as both a ToDo and 
'HowDone'(when done) record? Perhaps use a blog tool, taking advantage 
of tags and text search?


An enquiring mind wants to know (and be able to recall),
=(aged) dn


* a quaint, if antiquated technology involving dead trees and a 
monochromatic word processor known as a "ball-point" - only distantly 
related to an "IBM golf ball", but a significant improvement on the dip 
pens and quills with which we first trained...

# and a quite separate one for client work, which also doubles for 
time-billing and bill justification purposes.
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