Personally I’d recommend anything that would get out of your way. Meaning, not having to learn anything new, anything where’d you’d spend time editing and formatting. Something you can access quickly.
Figure out if you really need to make that many notes, or write so much down for a simple thing, or is a quick glance enough to remind you that it’s there. Think about it like this, you take a quick couple of minutes to do the lesson, but you spend double the time trying taking notes. If it takes you longer to take the notes and review them, it’s cheaper time wise just to go back to the lesson and review it there.
“Ahh, there’s so many lessons to waft through to find what I forgot,” you say. Okay, write down the language, the datatype it works on, the name of the method and it’s args. Done. No markdown needed, no having to learn latex, or how to incorporate it into another project. You’re not trying to document the documentation, you’re just trying to make it meaningful, and it’s useless if it’s cluttered.
There is a philosophy, and it’s the vim philosophy. Here’s the meaningful tangent: Keep your hand on the home keys, be able to jump to what you need and make the changes. Trimming milliseconds for everystep for ten years will save you hours. It’s about being efficient by being minimal.
I’ve contemplated using a simple command line task taking program called “t”, I currently have it installed and I have added several different calls to it in my bashrc file. Then I’ve modified my bash prompt to show my “t” aliases and number of entries.
Example (t, to, tn) are open different task files:
I recommend at least checking out their readme on github for a brief overview for the concept of having your notes app out of your way.
As an aside, I have scrapped all the lessons and ripped out their certificate category (SuperOrder), the category (Order), title, and description and put them in a sqlite db. Then crudely slapped minimal code just to get it to display, and tossed it into django. It works, but it’s ugly. The idea was to be able to quickly flip through the lessons without all that load, possibly adding a search. If anyones interested, I may decide to finish it and throw it up somewhere.
