Why I Started Structuring My Development Notes (After Getting Called Out 😅)

Early in my career as a software engineer, my notes were… chaos. My Supervisor Said My Notes Were Scattered. She Was Right. Some were in notebooks. Some in sticky notes. Some were screenshots. Some were in Slack messages. And honestly a lot of them were inside ChatGPT conversations. Whenever I solved something during development I would write it down somewhere. The problem was that “somewhere” was never the same place. So when the same problem appeared again, I had to search everywhere. Or worse, ask my supervisor again. One day during a discussion my supervisor casually pointed something out. She said my notes were scattered. She has more than 20 years of experience as an architect engineer, software engineer and solution analyst. When she said that, I started paying attention to how she works. Whenever we needed to check something she didn’t search chats or scroll messages. She simply opened documentation. FRS Technical documentation System notes Everything was structured and traceab