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Discussion on: How do you take notes while you code?

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FJones • Edited

Transient notes go into Slack, open strands in code go into TODO-tagged comments (thanks JetBrains for letting me find them easily!), and more persistent notes go into a root-level TODO/README, our wiki, or as a printout on the whiteboard.

Relevant personal notes just get dumped onto the desktop, with cleanup every year or so during business downtime.

For development sketches and so on, I just go pen&paper. Usually have a small A6 booklet with me for that purpose, and scribble down ideas and plans while sitting on the deck.