Show HN: I've written down everything I learned for the past year

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13 points·yoshuaw··7 comments

This reminds me of Nicholas Felton who produces every year a Feltron report; http://feltron.com/

Interesting. Can I ask how and when you start writing down a piece of knowledge? Have you hit times when you've missed inputting some knowledge, purely because you've been engrossed in whatever task it is.

I've attempted this sort of thing multiple times, with varying results. More often that not, I'll end up getting frustrated with missing a piece, after being either too busy or on a tight deadline.

> Have you hit times when you've missed inputting some knowledge, purely because you've been engrossed in whatever task it is There are so many things I wish I'd written down that I hadn't, but I think the key is to turn it writing things down into a routine.

I have a shared tmux tab that's always open, so no matter what I'm doing I can C-a-7 to write something down, and C C-a to get back to work - it's pretty fast!

Initially I was quite concerned with deadlines too, but I've found that even in the short run, writing things down ends up saving time - I've found that it's usually research that ends up taking time, not writing things down.

I hope this was helpful (:

Interesting! Reminds me of Jerry's Brain, which has 190,000 thoughts and over 300,000 links between them.

http://jerrysbrain.com/

Interesting stuff! I've bookmarked the long list of sci-fi novels.

How would you summarize it?

"knowledge"

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