[Gllug] Human memory

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On 18 October 2010 01:53, 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?
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>
>
> I just use normal text files (some of them thousands of lines long)
> indented like python to make logical sections and subsections. For the
> heading/title of each subsection I write in all caps and mention all of
> the keywords that I might want to use when searching for this nugget
> later, that way I can use any editor that offers case sensitive search
> to limit searches to just within headings/titles.
>
> Roger.
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