Hi All!
I’m curious on how you keep track of your ideas and thought process as you go through your projects. Say if there are two ways to solve a problem, or say there’s a new term in the API you have to learn before implementing in your code, random thoughts, a step by step process to implement your design.
There’s Github but that is for code, or do you commit changes as often as you think of ideas?
For me I use my journal situated in OneNote. I use my iPad to draw and my computer to write concepts/thoughts in my own words.
Tell me what you think!
For myself I use a couple of ways.
I use Notepad++ to make notes and store code snippets. I like Notepad++ for this because it addition to keeping notes it does code highlighting to help make my notes easy to read.
I also use an embedded tool in my IDE ( WebStorm ) called TODO to annotate my code with things I need to come back to, or as you said, to record random thoughts that I may wish to implement or reconsider later. TODO has some powerful tracking capabilities.
In addition to Github I also always create a local Git repository so that I can be fearless in experimenting with random thoughts and ideas as far as doing things in different ways. If something I try doesn’t work out - I just roll it back.
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I don’t really make concepts for web projects, I like to dive in and iterate my way to success (or failure :~). At work, I usually write extensive commentary at the top of a file or have a readme etc. For myself, I do the same but to a lesser extent. When I need to remind my future self of something, I use comments that I can easily grep later, like // TODO: do it the right way.