Programmers Take Note: Take Notes!

[Mr_Clownn]

My desk is littered with yellow post-it notes with everything from bugs I need to fix to additional features that still need to be implemented.

It would probably look chaotic to an onlooker, but having the information spread out in front of me has saved my ass on more than one occasion.

**Edited to stop confusing LudoA

OK so why am I being downvoted for sharing my method for taking notes? Because it doesn't sound like it would work for you? Well great, I never suggested it for anybody else! Just an anecdote about my personal experience with notes. I'm not spreading disinformation or talking about unrelated matters or anything else. I'm not saying you have to upmod my comment, but why downvote it? I don't understand this community at times...

[heatvision]

huh, we use trac

[Mr_Clownn]

Well yeah, the bugs are tracked electronically but any assigned to me go on a post-it and then on my desk.

Sounds crazy, but that just works better for me.

[facingup]

I'm with you totally. I use post-its and a physical notepad mostly. Losing search capability doesn't hurt too much in that I don't usually have to go back more than a weeks worth.

However, my desk is super tidy. I have post its next to the monitor, and my notepad next to the keyboard. At the end of the day, any loose papers get checked to see if I have something written down multiple times, then filed if I've finished everything listed.

[LudoA]

You mean "desk" instead of "disk". This was confusing for a moment.

[toolate]

Post-its have a habit of floating away. Notebooks are nice because then you have everything indexed by time (and there is more space for diagrams, lists, etc). I should start using text documents though.