Notes that come back.
These articles show how dates and consistent lines make a work log easier to search. Each one starts with text you already keep.
How do I find out what we decided, and why, months after the meeting?
Write the decision and its reason on their own lines, then read them back as a table whose rows open the original notes.
How do I hand over a project's notes without sending a pile of files?
Pick the dated blocks that matter, check them in a cart and download one file that opens without an account, with what it carries and what it leaves out.
I wanted to search my work notes. I ended up building instruments out of them.
How dated notes with ticket references turned into timelines, relations, and evidence, and where they stop being able to say anything.
How to keep a work log you can search a year later.
The format is one date line. What you do with the rest of the line decides whether any of it comes back to you in twelve months.
Tagging is a tax you pay before you know what matters.
Three ways to give notes structure, and when each one bills you for it.
Five questions your notes can answer once they have dates.
How often, alongside what, since when, moving which way, and what you quietly stopped doing.
The recurring incident your ticket system cannot see.
A ticket records a resolution. Your log records the third time.