![]() If you're not using a wiki, you're wasting your life. Changed my life.Īll those commands I'd only use once a year and could never remember the right options to run or the order in which to run them, not a problem anymore. I've been using it since 2002, at least that's the earliest date I can find it. ![]() It's searchable, does revision control and allows me to impose exactly how much order I want (or don't want) in the way I want it. My wiki records everything, notes, screenshots, invoices, work logs, network layouts, configuration files, links to webpages, videos, etc. notes was a pain when the thing I wanted to record, was not text, like a screenshot. Paper is a pain when I want to find something. The thing that saved me, was maintaining a personal wiki.īefore, I'd keep notes, either in a file called notes or on paper. I used to feel like it was cheating and felt uncomfortable for it, but now that's a skill I'm proud of.Īnyway, I wish you the best with your career! People sometimes think I'm knowledgeable about something, when I'm actually just good at searching for answers to their questions faster than they do. Today, I still don't consider myself good at that, but if you live in terminals like me, I'd recommend using org-mode (for manually keeping track of everything) and keeping your shell history forever (for everything you can't organize manually - set your HISTSIZE to +∞ or even better, store it in a proper SQL database).Įfficient searching (Google, man, Thunderbird, grep…) is IMHO the most powerful superpower you can develop these days, with all the information available to anybody about anything. I've been in awe the first time I saw the personal knowledge base a past colleague of mine had built with Evernote. Good note taking is a skill nobody should be ashamed of, quite the opposite. As you switch from one job to another, and then yet another, and then switch back, and… you reach a point where memory isn't enough anymore, and if you don't know how to take notes properly, your productivity drops (and your insecurities plummet). ![]() I've pretty good memory (and I won't lie, that helps), but somehow it has led me to rely on it too much and I've started to take notes way too late. Take it as a blessing and develop skills that will serve you at least as much as good memory: good note taking and good information searching. I just wish I didn't need to rely on it so often. I just don't know the proper command.ĭoes anyone have any suggestions? I've always kept a "notebook" of sorts and I suppose I should expand on that. I have an exam coming up, and fortunately it's open book, but I'm "ashamed" that I'll be spending a shit load of time looking at notes / Google because I know what to do. ![]() I don't need a GUI in Linux to get around.īut I do have to Google commands every three minutes, and it gets worse because now I'm using a bunch of pentesting tools and have to remember *those* commands as well. I don't want to avoid using the command line, at all. I understand what I'm supposed to be doing, and I know a hand full of commands I use a lot, but the rest is one big blur. I can't remember shit when it comes to command line (or programming, for that matter). Due to a career change I am now living in terminals more than ever, and that makes one of my huge insecurities worse:
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