Keeping a notebook

A notebook is useful when it is easy to open and easy to leave. These are the habits I am trying this week:

• Give each note a title that I will recognize later.
• Keep one idea on each page.
• Link related thoughts instead of repeating them.

A small routine

Set aside five minutes at the end of the day. Write what caught your attention and one thing you would like to try next.

Notice something.
Write it down.
Come back when you have more to say.

Some days a single sentence is enough. The useful part is having a place to put it.

Keep a little code, too

A notebook can hold working ideas as well as words. Give a fenced code block a language, such as csharp, to highlight it:

var notes = new[] { "Notice something", "Write it down", "Return tomorrow" };

foreach (var note in notes)
{
    Console.WriteLine(note);
}