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I'll disagree. Like code comments vs code, actual descriptive text can cover much more than just commit messages.

I keep a daily work journal, and I write down:

- What I was working on

- Who I talked to, and about what

- Problems I ran into

- How I solved those problems

- Useful techniques and snippets I came up with

- Where I left off today, and where I need to pick up tomorrow

Personally I use a notebook for a checklist so it's in front of me at all times.

I keep any helpful notes in a format that I can search through. Just a folder with a bunch of txt files that I than use FZF to comb through.

And I use git as a journal to jog my memory about what I was working on and general project progression.