I work as a Senior Developer at a large tech comapny across many different projects. I have also recent started the transition to an SDM role. One thing I'm finding is that I have reached my capacity for remembering all the different items I need to follow up on, tasks that need to get done, notes from 1:1s, and long running project ideas/growth ideas.<p>I've started taking more notes, but without a good system for organization I am not getting much value out of them.<p>I'd be curious to hear what works for the rest of you. Specifically:
- What tools have you found useful for note taking (I bounce between vimwiki and OneNote)?
- How do you organize? By project? Tasks?
- How do you structure the notes? Do you have a template?
- How do you deal with "scratchpad" style notes? Do you ever come back to them?
- How often do you revisit your notes?<p>Any other general good note taking practices or methodologies that you have found success with would be helpful.
I used to use OneNote. When I found out that I could only export from the OneNote web site, I quit.<p>My current answer is not for everybody, but I write notes in ReStructuredText on GitHub and write my own scripts for analyzing them. An important thing is that I put notes in the same collection for search along with other kinds of documents.
- OneNote hands down beats everything else for me.<p>Foe scratchpad I use the unfiled notes section. This is where all the shares go by default. I do wish they would bring some kind of hash-tagging.