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1455 points nromiun | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 12:58 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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e40 ◴[30 Aug 25 18:55 UTC] No.45077089[source]▶
This is why I make lists. Of everything. Checklists for technical processes (work and personal). Checklists for travel. Little "how to" docs on pretty much everything I do that I'm sure I won't remember past a week.

It completely removes the stress of doing things repeatedly. I recently had to do something I hadn't done in 2 years. Yep, the checklist/doc on it was 95% correct, but it was no problem fixing the 5%.

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mettamage ◴[30 Aug 25 19:16 UTC] No.45077220[source]▶
In like Apple Notes or what do you store the checklists in?
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1. computerdork ◴[30 Aug 25 20:15 UTC] No.45077653[source]▶
I like the digital note-taking tools, Evernote and Onenote - actually, used to use Evernote, but it started slowing down after my notebooks became too large, so switched to Onenote.

And eventhough Onenote is MS product and Evernote was the original that OneNote copied off of, OneNote is a better engineered piece of software (I have tons of notes and a few of them very large documents), and Onenote rarely has problems.