I do this day to day, nice to see that there's a name for it :)

Start every piece of work in a markdown with vim. and proceed to dump my thoughts, what I have tried, what did work and what didn't. Also any useful links that I've found useful.

And as they say "You only learn once you reflect", this proved invaluable for me going forward when faced with "ah. I've done that before but don't quite recall the details"

I move feel this to be like literate/log driven development