Take note: Take notes!
Continue Reading June 17th, 2009 Bill Shaw
If you’re like me, you’re working on many things at once. You’re continually developing, doing research, fixing bugs, helping people, etc. When it comes time to do your status report, how do you remember what all you did this week? When you see a bug that looks a lot like one you fixed two months ago, how do you remember what you did to fix it? The solution is simple, and yet I find many developers don’t do it. Take notes. You should take short, but informative, notes as you work, on all the things you work on that day. These notes don’t have to read like the next Great Novel. The purpose of the notes is to trigger your memory into remembering what you were doing when you took the note.
