[Gllug] Human memory

[Philip Hands]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 01:53:21 +0100, "general_email at technicalbloke.com" <general_email at technicalbloke.com> wrote:
> On 16/10/10 21:51, David L Neil wrote:
> > How do you keep a note of system tweaks, notes from learning about new
> > pkgs, etc?

For things that were disappointingly absent from search results, I
normally try to find the canonical place to put the information
(i.e. the wiki related to the package I was failing to configure) and
add it there.

For stuff that doesn't work for, I use ikiwiki -- which works as my wiki
and my blog, and try to write it up in a way that ensures that one of my
early searches would have found it.

It's quite gratifying when you end up doing that search (your brain
having rotted in the interim) and find your younger self telling you how
to sort yourself out :-)

Cheers, Phil.

P.S.  since ikiwiki compiles to static HTML, it'll 'run' from a local
directory, and since it's backed by any decent DVCS, it's easy to write
stuff in your favourite editor, and then publish it.
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