Nothing spectacular... but I've gotten into the habit of storing away my current shells' command histories whenever I feel I've done something non-trivial (debugging/compile session, etc.). For that I have a little script which essentially does history >~/memos/YYYY-MM-DD_hh-mm-ss.hist (YYYY-... being the current timestamp). Occasionally, I clean them up a little, or add a few short notes, but more often I don't.

I can then easily grep through those files whenever I can no longer remember what I did when and how...  Also, I can cut-n-paste stuff (can you remember all the hostnames and portnumbers you typed two months ago when you had set up that three-hop SSH tunnel to some client? — well, I can't). The possibility of chronological access (kind of like a 'diary') has sometimes turned out useful too, to reconstruct things — when someone asked or came up with strange claims...

All in all, this has proven very useful, considering that it takes almost no extra effort once you've made it a habit... (which is important for the generally lazy chick that I am :)

In reply to Re: Work practices: log books, notes files... by almut
in thread Work practices: log books, notes files... by doom

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