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Discussion on: How do you take notes while you code?

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Jesse Meek

I use CodeLingo Notebooks for code notes.

It's like Notion for devs. It's a web doc with markdown formatting, but you can insert "blocks" that integrate with editors and VCS hosts (e.g. github): here's a video demo:

I mainly use code snippets that you can click on to locate the code in your editor again. So you can literally navigate the codebase with your notes.

For example, if I'm touching several bits of code across the repo, I go back to the note to remind myself what the next step was, click on the snippet and it loads the exact bit of code up for me in my editor.

It's got a bunch of other features on top, chatting with your team on a snippet, applying a patch etc.

Full disclosure, CodeLingo Notebooks is my own project so I'm obviously biased but I can honestly say I can't imagine coding without it now. Super keen to hear people's thoughts.

Happy Coding 😊