Engineering Notebook Experiment

I read about engineering notebooks here: https://ntietz.com/blog/using-an-engineering-notebook/ and for me the aspects that stood out the most were:

• it is an append-only notebook (no modifications or deletions)
• you write notes before doing a code change
  • this requires thinking through the problem before writing any code, potentially leading to better code
• writing the note (and the thinking before writing) is the main selling point here. Reading back old notes not so much

Will try this out for at least a week in my day-to-day job. For personal projects I don’t see the benefit yet as long as you are still in the fast paced prototyping stage of your project. Maybe this will change after the week. Will keep a record on this.