We run a whole bunch of micro-services at work and I keep discovering things about them when I am reading through the code, fixing bugs, runbooks or whatever else. Right now, I have a note for every service and I keep appending to that. Evernote has some serious issues - no versioning, easy to totally delete the note (no warning). How do you all keep track of all the incremental learning?
Mindmaps, with notes. Allows you to organize the information in a visual hierarchy, so that you can quickly refer back to the notes. I use Freemind[1], an open source tool.<p>[1] - <a href="http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page" rel="nofollow">http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page</a>
If you're using emacs you can use org-mode for note taking. Plus, there are lots of benefits wherein you can organize everything just in plain text.<p>Some of the previous discussions about org-mode:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2423276" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2423276</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8668271" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8668271</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2091850" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2091850</a><p>From org-mode website:
Org mode is for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system.<p><a href="http://orgmode.org/" rel="nofollow">http://orgmode.org/</a>
I use OneNote. I have a Notebook for each project I'm on, with tabs to keep my notes organized. My small team, 3 people, has a shared OneNote Notebook to allow collaboration.
At my previous employer, we used Atlassian's Confluence.
I have a few text files at work that I keep track of things. I treat it more as a reference file/personal FAQ file, some notes are verbose and some are terse. When I am learning on a side project I keep my notes in Google docs. I take the time to format those notes better so I can study them easily. Google Docs has history and warns you when you delete a file. What do you use versioning for? I correct my notes when I discover they are wrong, and if we release a new version of the product, I just record the new behaviour in addition to the old behaviour (along with dates, build numbers etc)
I'm using tiddlywiki and I must say it's doing an amazing job. It doesn't stand on the way, works via mobile, everything is fine so far. I am slowly transitioning from Evernote. However if someone doesn't pick-it-up it will probably cease[1] by the end of 2016.<p>[1] <a href="http://osmo-service.tiddlyspace.com/ServiceUpdate20160112" rel="nofollow">http://osmo-service.tiddlyspace.com/ServiceUpdate20160112</a>
Wiki, that way other people can contribute as <i>they</i> learn incrementally.<p>Wiki gardening is a thing, though, and without it, doom will follow.<p>At my last job we did the same thing, but I heavily customized the wiki to include endpoint testing, DB access, context-sensitive autocomplete, etc. It was pretty cool.