I'm not sure if it's just me or if this is common in our field. The past year has been a bit intense for me. I've been learning a few different technologies to get some tasks done and sometimes I've had to completely focus on that one new technology I'm learning. What I noticed though when I go back to using everything together in the full project is that I forgot how to do things that I already knew how to do before I started focusing on learning that other new technology. Sometimes I find that I forget even simple things like the syntax for selecting a div in jquery, that I have to go back to old files to get a quick peek. Sometimes I could be coding something that I recognize I did before in another project, but can't quite remember which project it was for, so I have to go through several projects and look through the code to try and remember where I did that.What ways have you invented to prevent yourself from forgetting things you've done before, or to easily access code you've written in the past?
Forgetting stuff I've done before and how do you fix this
productivity;knowledge management