Thought Organizing Software
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Most of you are probably familiar with some variation of this problem:
You're trying to resolve a programming problem, usually involving some kind of maintenance, and you run into problems resolving the problem, and you run into problems resolving those problems. At some point the greynesses and details start to exceed your available neural RAM, and you're left at a temporary standstill while you try to figure out the best way to approach the problem.
This is especially a problem when you have limited status in your workplace. Have any of you used any kind of software to assist in organizing your thoughts on the problem and its resolution? If not, do you have other methods that you use to address these kinds of problems?
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You should use swamp search.
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@kt_ Ha ha ha. You should be kind to noobs.
Should have mentioned, I'm on Linux. (Minor detail.)
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@jinpa said in Thought Organizing Software:
Have any of you used any kind of software to assist in organizing your thoughts on the problem and its resolution?
Did you try a mind mapping software?
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@jinpa said in Thought Organizing Software:
@kt_ Ha ha ha. You should be kind to noobs.
Should have mentioned, I'm on Linux. (Minor detail.)
I am, pointing you to the best solution!
Oh, you're on Linux. You're gonna run into all of those problems with Linux hardware, then.
I have no idea how to help you. Usually just used a combination of One Note and mind maps/workflow editors. Nowadays I like whiteboards and pieces of paper.
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@kt_ said in Thought Organizing Software:
Nowadays I like whiteboards and pieces of paper.
Still one of the best solution
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Most of the time I do a point form outline in Sublime (other text editors are available)
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@jinpa said in Thought Organizing Software:
Have any of you used any kind of software to assist in organizing your thoughts on the problem and its resolution?
We tend to use either a piece of paper or a whiteboard. Where I use any software at all, it's just an ordinary text editor open on the file
~/scratch.txtso that I can keep track of lots of pastes and stuff. So no, not very high tech. But you don't want your problem support systems to distract you from actually solving the problem, and most advanced software tends to restrict you a bit too much. This is a time to apply the KISS principle.I'll probably also have a dozen or more browser tabs open with various searches though.
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@dkf said in Thought Organizing Software:
This is a time to apply the KISS principle.
Yeah, or just simply kiss someone, that tends to be a great problem-solving approach, too!
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@kt_ said in Thought Organizing Software:
Yeah, or just simply kiss someone, that tends to be a great problem-solving approach, too!
Not so sure about that
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@TimeBandit said in Thought Organizing Software:
@kt_ said in Thought Organizing Software:
Yeah, or just simply kiss someone, that tends to be a great problem-solving approach, too!
Not so sure about that
Hey, stop doxxing. This is a photo from the epeen thread!
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@kt_ said in Thought Organizing Software:
@dkf said in Thought Organizing Software:
This is a time to apply the KISS principle.
Yeah, or just simply kiss someone, that tends to be a great problem-solving approach, too!
Not if you're in the workplace! That tends to get you fired - which does solve the problem of organizing your thoughts on the original problem...
Me? I tend to just use paper or a simple editor. Sometimes OneNote/Evernote where I'll keep my ideas/links (to preserve loss of those browser tabs!). Even though I worked for a mindmapping software place, I never really figured out how to use it well - guess my mind didn't work that way...
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I've used it for to-dos and I use it for documenting the structure of the insane codebase I'm dealing with.
Those screenshots look way better than what I've produced. I'm not an advanced user.
But its best feature IMO is that you can zoom in and out.
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Once upon a time, I used TiddlyWiki. It was a Java/HTML locally-stored wiki that broke ~five years ago when browsers got more serious about Java security. The website still exists, so I suppose they must have refactored it into some other form that doesn't get blocked-by-default.
These days, I use OneNote for larger ideas, and a text editor for smaller ones. (I use EditPadPro for my casual text-editing; I rather like the syntax-highlighted regex search/replace. I don't use it for coding.)
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TreeSheets is exceptionally small & fast, so can sit in your system tray at all times: with several documents loaded representing the equivalent of almost 100 pages of text, it uses only 5MB of memory on Windows 7 (!)
Ha! That’s roughly equivalent to one checkbox in Node.
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@topspin said in Thought Organizing Software:
Ha! That’s roughly equivalent to one checkbox in Node.
Maybe, but a Node app is easily ported to multiple OS
From the website:
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@TimeBandit they're using wxWidgets.
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@kt_ said in Thought Organizing Software:
@dkf said in Thought Organizing Software:
This is a time to apply the KISS principle.
Yeah, or just simply kiss someone, that tends to be a great problem-solving approach, too!
Oi! Keep the shitposting down in the help category!
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@jinpa Welcome to the forums!
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I use zim wiki for taking notes, it stores them in an intuitive directory hierarchy, and can store other files as attachments (but in practice, they are just files in the note's directory).
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@Adynathos said in Thought Organizing Software:
I use zim wiki for taking notes, it stores them in an intuitive directory hierarchy, and can store other files as attachments (but in practice, they are just files in the note's directory).
Almost what I need. Just add android to that and I'd throw money at it.
