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65 points dennisy | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.217s | source

Each day I (and I assume most knowledge workers, devs, creatives) read many articles, papers, code snippets, AI responses, discord messages etc.

At the end of the day some of this information is most likely lodged in your brain and the digital version can be discarded. However some of it should be retained manually in some system - or at least I feel it should.

What approaches do people use to consolidate and store this information to allow all tabs etc to be closed for the next work day?

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For me information tends to fall into one of the following categories:

Information that I need right now, but won't need once the task I'm working on is complete (e.g. A standard algorithm that I'm adapting to a specific use case). This information is normally in the form of a web page and will live in a tab in my browser. At the end of the day I close my browser, if I haven't finished the task I'm working on then I can pull that tab out of my browser's history the next day.

Information that my team needs (e.g. "this is how we run our Ansible playbooks"). This written up in a form targeting our environment and goes in our team's documentation (which is just a git repository full of markdown files).

Information that I will need access to regularly (e.g. Configuration options for one of the systems that we look after). This is also usually in the form of a web page and I'll simply add it as a bookmark to my browser (sometimes this also gets added as a link to our team documentation)

Information that I don't currently need but I'm trying to gain an understanding of (e.g. the contents of a book that I'm reading to expand my knowledge on an area). For this sort of information I like to have it in a form that I know will be around so that I can go back to it when needed - I'm usually pretty good at remembering the bigger picture from a book, which is enough for me to know where I need to go to look for the fine details.