How I Take (and Organise) My Notes As a Software Engineer

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ส.ค. 2024

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  • @alexhyettdev
    @alexhyettdev  ปีที่แล้ว +3

    After recording this video the new Reader app by Readwise came out. It is very polished and worth a try.

  • @yogurt50003
    @yogurt50003 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Just stopping by to thank u for the video and the clarity of the explanation, most content creators make such big videos talking about productivity and spend a lot more time talking about other things without getting to the point haha, so as a person who doesn't have time, I really appreciate it!

    • @alexhyettdev
      @alexhyettdev  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you I appreciate that!

  • @randymartin9040
    @randymartin9040 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    What an incredible video, that was so spot on for what I as looking for, thank you, truly!

  • @laurenrobinson6427
    @laurenrobinson6427 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wicked video and resources, thank you - this has been super helpful. I have copious amounts of web bookmarks, notebooks, sheets of paper, word docs, etc., I'm excited to try these tools out.

    • @alexhyettdev
      @alexhyettdev  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you, I am glad you liked it!

  • @SteparuBR
    @SteparuBR 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for the video!

  • @Steven-id9mc
    @Steven-id9mc ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just finished my first year as a full time SE and can tell you that you will get your ass chewed tf out if you don't take detailed notes. The soft skill that nobody teaches you in school

    • @alexhyettdev
      @alexhyettdev  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes it is so important! Especially when you start out as there will be a lot of domain knowledge that likely isn’t documented very well!

    • @Steven-id9mc
      @Steven-id9mc ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@alexhyettdev This is just fax. A lot of our documentation is old and outdated. It's full of deprecated tables, deprecated Stored Procedures, or only half of the functions that are currently used within a SP. So I spend a ton of time searching for wtf is @Function = 5, the documentation only goes to 3

  • @EnternodeCS
    @EnternodeCS ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I remember always failing to move notes from paper to digital; I think there's two reasons for this.
    One, I organize my notes cronologically sorted by category. What I write down is usually an outline of important concepts from a book, lectures, or other start to finish material that has meaning when ordered this way. But even in other scenarios, my mind seems to be able to remember when I learned something fairly well.
    Two, I think there is a sort of impact on how well I remember something without having to refer back to my notes if I have written it down. I think this is because in the process of taking my notes, I fully digest the material and then condense it down to key concepts that are much more memerable.
    But I haven't taken notes in a few years now... and I think I should get back to doing that.

    • @alexhyettdev
      @alexhyettdev  ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes taking notes definitely helps me remember the content better. I find having digital notes really useful when I want to write something from them though as I can search keywords and find information I am looking for.

  • @randymartin9040
    @randymartin9040 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey Alex, I'd like to discuss a few topics with regarding what you were writing at :37 . It's interesting that you have some fib stuff in there, when that's a large part of my interest that I'm already 5 years past, but likely for different reasons than you, I'd like to discuss the overlaps between our knowledge and see if we can fuel each other with some prior knowledge the other didn't have. Let me know if interested (I also like software dev, and I say dev because I never took the more extreme engineering courses related to computer scienece).

  • @randymartin9040
    @randymartin9040 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video thank you, I've copied a bunch of your sorting as a prototype for mine

  • @veoquenoesunproblema
    @veoquenoesunproblema หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have found after watching a lot of videos of note taking: Americans love to do list haha, everything is a to do list and a project.

  • @ma3ter3ky
    @ma3ter3ky ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You see this comment, when the video already reached 1M.
    Know, i was here on 500 hundreds.

    • @alexhyettdev
      @alexhyettdev  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      🤞🏻for 1M views. Thank you for supporting my small channel!

    • @alexhyettdev
      @alexhyettdev  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      1K views only 990,000 to go!

  • @goudartsilva8086
    @goudartsilva8086 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    notion is traaaaaaaaaaaaaahsssssss

    • @alexhyettdev
      @alexhyettdev  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I much prefer Obsidian. I mainly use Notion when I need API integration.

  • @Slaughter327
    @Slaughter327 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where/How did you get the icons you use for your folders?

    • @alexhyettdev
      @alexhyettdev  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If you search in the community plugins for Icon Folder you can then add icons from FontAwesome and other Icon packs to your folders.