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Your head, ... I mean, your brain, mind.
That's what comes in handy at the right time. All others need to be indexed, and searched. Having said that, there's an interesting quote from Conan Doyle, where Sherlock Holmes says:
“I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
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EverNote is your friend
I just plonk notes in there, grab web clips etc. and don't worry too much about organisation
Later I might organise the notes, but the search is good enough most of the time.
(I'm not saying I don't organise at all - I have notebooks for different subjects, but in ech notbook I just splat in information.
It's fast, fun and freeeeeee!
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Finally back with internet connection! I'll try EverNote, OneNote annoys me. Thanks for the help.
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Not really, just a text file with a manually kept index. Soon enough you'll delete most of the things in it because they are trivial and already burned forever in your mind.
Geek code v 3.12 {
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If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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A Moleskine[^].
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Seriously Google is your friend.
You can't know everything in programming, and in many ways, I have always found that it's not what you know, its how to find the answers based on requirements and apply those findings that counts.
I do use OneNote for notes, but usually for ideas rather than code snippets.
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Wastedtalent wrote: its how to find the answers based on requirements and apply those findings that counts.
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Microsoft OneNote or Evernote. I use OneNote, and it is portable.
As you learn the basics, the notes that you keep for the basics, won't matter anymore. I think that is why a few members keep mentioning Google.
Please remember, there are developers that Google more, and developers that Googgle, less. Which one do you want to be?
I would strive to be a Programmer/Developer/Engineer that Google's less.
Google is a great tool. CodeProject and Stack Overflow are your friends, too.
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I used onenote until, when I updated to the latest version it completely trashed all my notes, and happily synched so I lost almost everything.
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That has never happened to me and I have upgraded to every new version, when they became available. - Interesting.
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Yeah - one of those things, I think!
I was using OneNote for work and Evernote at home - now I use Evernote for bot. Just shows how one bad experience can lose a company a sale! (although I still use the rest of the office suite, so actually MS don't care
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Do you pay for your Evernote? I have thought about going to the paid version, thinking that I will get more benefits from it. What do you think?
The one thing that I can't do with OneNote is view it on my Android phone, currently.
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I don't see anything other than the ability to store notes offline that I would use (though I haven't looked for a while, I confess) so the free version is fine for me
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...and then you just shrugged it off and restored from your offline backup, right?
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Corporate site - probably is a backup but can't be arsed waiting to get it found, restored etc. - need something now.
Fortunately I had a machine I hadn't used for months that I turned on (offline) and got a load of stuff from.
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Here's what I've done and it works ok...
- Open Gmail, create a new email
- Don't fill in a sender
- Add a subject.
- Paste in whatever you want.. notes, links, image, etc.
- Wait for gmail to save it
DONT HIT SEND! The notes are now in an unsent email in the Drafts folder forever. And you can access it from anywhere.
I have 23 'Drafts' and their subjects are by category - 'C#', 'WPF', 'MVC', etc.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Off to Orlando, Florida tomorrow. Please limit your posts so that I don't have too much to read when I come back in five days. Much obliged!
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Don't they have CP in Orlando?
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Aside from my cellphone, I'm tech-free. This is a 100% vacation.
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Who are you and why are you posting here.
Sorry, I'll get my hat...
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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What's worst, a cold toilet seat or a warm toilet seat?
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A wet one.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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