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I've done this before, but more directed at general software development as a sort of documented reproducible and resumable state. Ask me anything :)

I never got good at tangling my blocks together in the end though which is what I think would have made this method really powerful.

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Isn't that just literate programming? Or do you mean something else?

It was kind of more like coming up with organized snippets and notes while understanding a problem.

I'm expressing the wish that were I better at organizing them better that I could have tangled all of those snippets into a working (if ugly) source file and work from there.

Does that make sense?

Ohh I see, yeah. I usually draw diagrams or write pseudo-code out on paper (or both combined) when trying to grasp something difficult but "notebook-style" exploration also sounds interesting.

> but "notebook-style" exploration also sounds interesting.

It is, but if the process and tooling isn't really polished and responsive it feels really bad.

When everything is smooth though, it might be ideal. Jury still out on that one.

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