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#+title : Work log
I keep a daily journal using [[file:20200710214307-org_mode.org ][Org Mode ]] of the things I do while working, tracking
what I did, why, and how. I make generous use of executable code snippets to
store what I run in the document alongside the results I get from them.
While this is useful from a purely historical perspective, it's very hard to go
back and find entries relating to particular issues or projects. Even when I can
find entries, they tend to be extremely narrowly focused to the exact problem
being tackled at the time, and as they're written in the heat of solving those
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problems, they don't tend to include much elaboration on the bigger picture. The
difficulty in sifting through a chronological work journal with entries of
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varying quality is noted plainly in Dr. Ahren's book, specifically [[file:20200716231656-how_to_take_smart_notes.org::*Chapter 6: Simplicity Is Paramount][Chapter 6:
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Simplicity Is Paramount]].
