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[denarced]

Do you guys keep notes?
Let's consider the following example:

You see an interesting article in a pdf file that concerns C-programming and testing, for example. You're not working on that particular field right now but you think it'll be a useful thing to know when and if the time comes.

My question is certainly not limited to this type of situation but to keeping notes on your knowledge and we're not going to remember everything for sure.
Do you keep a library of ideas you're come across?
Do you have a system for this?
Keywords, categories, what do you use?
This really is an open ended question so please comment even if it's somewhat off the topic.

[LynxSI]

I keep a folder on my HDD where I save sample code/tutorials/etc.. I am an experience based learner (more so than just reading). So the best way for me to learn is to take a sample/tutorial and modify it and play with it until I understand. So I have a little collection of sample projects mostly from codeproject that I reference every once and while.

No structured note taking though. I'm a bit unorganized, paper and files everywhere. ;-)
- Ben

[denarced]

Yeah, it seems that most people aren't organized. I'm asking this very same question on another forum as well. A simple folder structure is not sufficient anymore because items have several labels.
A single tip/hint/piece of code might at the same time belong to Java,Testing,Documenting,...

[WingedPanther]

Generally, if I think something will be truly useful, I bookmark it in a sub-folder called "reference"