I Should Write Down and Summarize What I Did

feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 10:37:17 +0530

I did a lot of research the other day about what I’d need to build a contact form for my website.
I bookmarked lots of pages.

And today, I come and look at this mountain of videos and sites and pages and woneder what exactly it is, that I am supposed to tackle.
Nothing makes sense.
I know I ruled out Sendy as an option. Or did I?
Do I need Javascript? How much? Can I get snippets to copy paste? Do I need to go learn Javascript?
What is spam protection? Do I need spam protection? How do I do it?
I’ll have to go look at it all again now.¹

Note To Self:

As you wind down your day, summarize what it is that you were working on in the eve.. (in however shitty a manner. does not matter.) Which also means, you need to keep some time in hand to do that. Or stop working a bit earlier
As you being your day, look over your calendar first², agenda next³, and as you begin each task review your summary from wheneve you worked on it last⁴.

I do this when I work all the time for clients.
Wonder why I never do it for my learning.
Time to treat myself as my most important client, and not assume that I will remember the important bits.
Time to make it easy for myself to pick up the threads again.

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Or god forbid, research it all over again. ↩︎
Which I normally do ↩︎
Which I also normally do ↩︎
Which I never do ↩︎

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feedback@janusworx.com (Mario Jason Braganza) — Sun, 30 Dec 2018 14:48:48 +0530

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