https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/an-efficient-approach-to-continuous-documentation
Excerpts:
- Start with nothing more than a single blank text file.
- Each of these notes could be captured in seconds, at the moment the thought came up. More detail can always be added later, but that’s strictly optional. Whatever you do, make it so that your daily journaling is easy enough that you stick with it, even if it means writing only a tiny bit each day.
- After a few weeks, review your notes and look for recurring themes.
- Create a new document for each of the themes you’ve identified, and then spend a few moments summarizing the more interesting parts of your journal related to that theme.
- Your summarized notes will start to become more structured, because you’ll be intentionally looking for common threads during each review. Once that happens, it’s a sign that you’re ready to start building out a formal knowledge base.