I have played around with various methods (OneNote, personal wikis, Markdown, etc.), but I have found that keeping 2 primary plain-text personal notes has helped me a lot, preferably with Notepad++.
1) A simple text file with important information, with everything including logins, host names, how-tos, even things like team members’ names and roles. I rarely change anything and often just add information while marking previous obsolete info as such.
2) A simple TODO list that I just keep adding to. Many times I will get requests that aren’t necessarily tracked in project management tools (either there’s something that can’t be encapsulated in a user story, or the overhead of putting it into the software is just too much).
In addition, IMO too much has been formalized into disparate systems and can easily get lost or difficult to access. Keeping personal notes like this enables me to have much more control and allows me to easily search the entirety of my knowledge base with a simple text search or even regex.
1) A simple text file with important information, with everything including logins, host names, how-tos, even things like team members’ names and roles. I rarely change anything and often just add information while marking previous obsolete info as such.
2) A simple TODO list that I just keep adding to. Many times I will get requests that aren’t necessarily tracked in project management tools (either there’s something that can’t be encapsulated in a user story, or the overhead of putting it into the software is just too much).
In addition, IMO too much has been formalized into disparate systems and can easily get lost or difficult to access. Keeping personal notes like this enables me to have much more control and allows me to easily search the entirety of my knowledge base with a simple text search or even regex.
Edit: missed a few words