How do you do to get going quickly again after leaving code unfinished? To-do comments? Separate notes? Something else?

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Seriously, normally i add comments with plans for the near future (idk, how the alg should work or what i want to add).

Or I just didn't. Forget use comments and probably die after hours to try understanding my own crap.

TODO (asgs) - DO IT!

My approach is:

Hibernate computer so that when you start again you're back right where you left off - all the browser tabs, editor windows, you name it. Helps me a lot to remember what I was doing.

Also adding several todos so that I get everything out there. Just like when writing code comments, I like to imagine that I'll be reading my notes in a year or more. For me, it's either that or overestimate my memory.

Also writing and sketching on paper...

The goal is to do such a good job documenting that I have a snapshot of my brain, that way I can totally LET GO and not feel like I have to remind myself of what I was doing so that I don't lose it.

@natinaum Haha. Welcome :)

@gintko Writing them before seems smart :) Like documentation and tests ;)

@ihatecomputers Yeah, hibernation helps a lot. Works for a few days and then my computer gets a little tired. Much easier to restart than clearing processes or whatever. Though during that restart is when I forget the most it feels like 😅

Todo comments and manual notes in my notebook or post it notes. To be creative :)

Also if you have a project manager then he/she will remind you if you forgot it

@Devnergy Project manager? Haha, no such thing here no ;)