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The blissful Zen of a good side project

(joshcollinsworth.com)
567 points ingve | 2 comments | 04 Apr 25 20:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.433s | source
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jlcases ◴[05 Apr 25 07:43 UTC] No.43591702[source]▶
Documentation quality has been the determining factor in the evolution of my side projects. I've developed a structured documentation system that has completely transformed my workflow with AI assistants.
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1. leoedin ◴[05 Apr 25 07:54 UTC] No.43591760[source]▶
Can you share more about this?

I think that's often the thing that kills my side projects. I'll make reasonable progress, lose interest for a bit, and then when I come back to it all the working memory is gone and so I spend a few hours just getting up to speed again. Better ongoing documentation to allow quicker self-onboarding is what I need!

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2. Philpax ◴[05 Apr 25 12:49 UTC] No.43593053[source]▶
I've had reasonable success with taking diary-style notes on whatever project I'm working on within that project's page in Obsidian, and then when I need to come back to it, either reading over it or passing it through a LLM to summarise / ask me targeted questions to prod my memory.