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But I will loose it all, that's why you should bookmark everything, have terminal bookmarks of paths, use git worktrees to allow leaving workspace messy. Use a lot of notion docs, .md docs, notebooks. Places where you organize stuff, so that you can come back easily when you need it again.

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A running txt file for each project/work capsule has been wonders. Then common txt files for anything you learned or, things you need to learn, notes/todos, etc.

I think I would be half as productive as I'd like without this.

Yes. I have started doing this with an Obsidian note for each project. Any ongoing lists go there, and each day has a heading with todos and thought process while solving the todos. Then in my main todo list or kanban I just link to the project with one sentence on where to resume the next day.

I've setup my ~/Stuff, ~/CurrentStuff and mkstuff some time ago and it's extremely useful to keep clutter under control for me. I use this as temporary working directories for small stuff that's not a real project yet. `mkstuff ticket-123-team-db-troubleshooting` creates me a directory `~/Stuff/2026-02/12-ticket-123-team-db-troubleshooting` and drops the shell into that. ~/CurrentStuff is just a link to current months stuff.

This way I have everything about a ticket in a place and if someone is like "uhh, you did something to something some 3 months ago or so?" - ~/Stuff/2025-1{0,1,2} probably knows, I certainly don't. I can find things again like this :)

I'll eventually have to setup some automated archiving for it, but so far it's not using too much space.

Yes, I do believe you own the correct answers - however, can you make a long form blog post about this and share it on Hacker News? We need the rest of the information.

My room should be messy when I come back to it - how else would I find anything if it wasn’t where I left it?

I started working on a task management app that could handle the massive amounts of context switching I do on a daily basis - aggregated over slack, iOS reminders, Jira, linear, and obsidian... I'm glad I'm not alone in having such crazy environment.

I saved thousands of bookmarks and realized that I hadn't opened a single one in ten years. It would be better to have open windows.

I tried this. Never managed to bother going back to those "organized" notes though; ended up being a waste of time.

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