so few people write ANYTHING down, even work-critical stuff.
but writing things down means you:
- heavily reduce cognitive load, because, well, you don't have to remember it
- lets you EASILY go "wait that doesn't look right" if someone's off by an order of magnitude
- lets you be the wizard who remembers that one thing the guy said at a meeting that might come in handy
- writing things out means you can move them around the page, come back to them, etc -- it's 2-dimensional thinking. Writing things out makes me actually think about them much better
- no really, your co-workers are going on half-remembered vibes most of the time. work smarter not harder.
full text search of your computer is robust now. write it down. later when you really need it and you're out of everything you'll remember and find it again. This has saved my computer 4 times a year since I switched to linux. and got me through uni. and keeps coming in handy in software.
When I've ever needed to deep-google something a second time that's not the same day as the first? You bet I write it down in a place I know I can find next time.
Writing your own shit down is incredibly important but also so is making other people write shit down. Get people to send stuff in email at least. Have a record of everything you said and everything they said! It will make your life infinitely easier!
The irony is, I don't think I even need to elaborate on it.
