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touch typing - some folks don't learn to type quickly without looking

tmux - per project, persistent terminal

shell aliases - stop typing frequently used commands

GTD - some form of productivity process like Getting Things Done, including a prioritized TODO list

hot reload - don't accept slow development cycles

timeboxing - avoid rat holing a day or two away on a low value task

programmer notebook or wiki - document steps or arcane knowledge for the next time

hard coded - unblock yourself for missing data or dependencies

user testing on paper prototypes - save months of throw away code

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> programmer notebook or wiki - document steps or arcane knowledge for the next time

Any examples of dedicated notebook software?

markdown files probably ?

I've been using Quiver[0] for past month, and I really like it. It feels like ipython notebook only for my notes.

Unfortunately, it works only on Mac.

[0]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quiver-programmers-notebook/...

I also vouch for Quiver. Works really well.

Still trying to find a good one myself. Tried using Evernote but their code formatting isn't that great and I'm always worried about the day they might close shop.

Been writing Markdown files in a git repo, then syncing on Gitlab so I'd have them accessible anywhere, but there's more manual effort involved with writing Markdown (I forget some of the fancier list/bullet formatting) and also defining metadata for future lookups (first few lines of each text file).

If someone made an Electron-based app, this would be great for all the programmers out there.

In the beginning of my career I used a paper notebook. This is still handy as I think I remember what I hand write more deeply. I still use a paper notebook for ideas and sketching.

TODO list / GTD: For the last few years, I've been using altNV, but any notational velocity clone will do. Killer feature is simplicity through full text search as the filename.

http://zim-wiki.org

iOS GoodNotes for years. Now I've got an iPad Pro with Apple Pencil and it is pretty wonderful. Of course not perfect—no OCR or searchable text but sure is a nice thing to use everyday.

Quiver looks neat.

If you're searching for something plain and simple, keeping a repo of Markdown files on GitHub has worked well for me.

I make one file for each book / article / lecture. The material I cover is mostly about tech or entrepreneurship.

https://github.com/tedmiston/notes

Here are a couple of the most complete pages in it:

- Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon - https://github.com/tedmiston/notes/blob/master/books/Show%20...

- Zero to One by Peter Thiel - https://github.com/tedmiston/notes/blob/master/books/Zero%20...

- Startup School Radio #35: Paul Graham - https://github.com/tedmiston/notes/blob/master/podcasts/Star...

I built https://devarist.com for this purpose.

For tmux, do you use something to persist your sessions across a system restart?

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