Maybe I'm just getting old, but I find that my memory for details often fails me - especially several months or years down the road when I need to remember what I did to solve a problem or where the code was. I've gotten into the habit of taking notes. I'll jot down a description of the symptoms, the reason for the problem, the fix and what version of the code the fix is in. Rather than just record this into a paper journal, my tool of choice is a wiki. This way, when someone asks me later what I did to fix a problem, I can quickly find the page and send them a link to it. Once I give myself enough clues about the problem and the solution, I'm a lot better at remembering the other details.
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