What the heck was I working on??
Does it ever happen to you that you go to work in the morning, look at the screen and then ask yourself : What the heck was I working on?? Happens to me all the time. Maybe I was in the middle of debugging some code the previous day, or writing a unit-test or finishing up the implementation of a class or going through existing code to understand what it’s doing or something else. Given the detailed nature of software development, it’s sometimes hard to remember where you left off and from where you need to pick things up again.
Below is an approach that’s worked quite well for me:
Tells me where I left off
I write myself a little MS Outlook note and put right in the middle of the screen. Simple, but very effective!
Works great until windows decides it should restart. Then you don’t even have the last code file open the next morning.
true. but you can still pull up the note the next day since it’ll be saved on your computer. unless of course you forget that you had actually written yourself a note the previous day!