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Noting it down so that the context is easy enough to restore may be a surprisingly large amount of work, easily taking 10 or even 15 minutes, not 20 seconds.

This is somehow related to the fact that e.g. a programmer can spend 30-60 minutes wandering through code and docs before the right amount of context is built in their head, so that a seemingly simple change can be done with confidence.



Oh yeah absolutely. I mainly do notes in my personal life, coding is a whole different thing that I’m still in the process of figuring out lol




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