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That's why I often imitate how companies submit their PR's in my solo projects. The reason is for documentation. You also nailed it right. Every time I forgot how to do something I know I've already done in the past, I can simply look up my PR's and commit messages to guide me again. It helps a lot and saves me time.
That’s such a good approach. I’ve started realizing the same thing recently.
Treating PRs and commit messages as documentation really helps “future me” a lot 😄 Especially when revisiting logic I haven’t touched in a while, it saves so much time compared to re-understanding everything from scratch.
Excellent, this is one of the most overlooked or under appreciated skills in development. It can help onboard new team members, and get them up to speed with the code base no matter their level of experience. What type of systems do you use? (e.g., GitHub, Confluence, Obsidian, AppFlowy, Google Docs, etc..)
Totally agree. it’s one of those skills that doesn’t look “technical” at first but makes a huge difference for team productivity and onboarding.
In our team, we mainly rely on Confluence and SharePoint for structured documentation, while code and workflow are managed through Bitbucket.
For my personal workflow, I keep things a bit more flexible, I use Google Keep for quick notes and ideas, and Obsidian when I need to organize deeper understanding (like connecting concepts, flows, or debugging insights).
I’ve found that having both “official” documentation and personal notes really helps especially when trying to understand complex systems faster or explain them to others.
I will recommend Obsidian. I have tried a lot of different ways to do this, but Obsidian just clicked. And when I say 'a lot', I mean a ton.
Thanks for this
This is so relatable.
Just curious what tool you used later on organising your notes? Should help me get the right tool for doing this.
Thank you
Hey! Glad you found it relatable 😊
For our team’s official documentation, we mainly use SharePoint and Confluence, and we manage workflows/code via Bitbucket.
But for my personal notes, I keep it simple. I use Google Keep for quick thoughts and daily stuff.
When things get more complex or structured, I’ve started using Obsidian (someone recommended it here actually 😄), and I really like it. It gives a much clearer structure, especially when linking ideas together and organizing bigger concepts.
I think it depends on your style, quick capture vs deeper thinking. I kind of use both depending on the situation 👍
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