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James Lieu · 2021-12-07T22:02:04.824Z

The Benefits of Journaling 📓 🤔 It helps you articulate your thoughts. If you’re like me, you probably tend to “think through” your coding problems. Trying to implement an algorithm? You run each step through your mind. Need to design a new class? Y...

This post was nothing but inspiring. As a military veteran who is use jotting down problems, solutions, and concepts, this aligns well with me and inspires me to journal as a now junior full stack web developer. Good thing I already use Notion and I look forward to using Hashnode as a medium to share my experiences as a dev and also retrospectively reflect on the progress I have made as a developer.

Thank you for your kind words Joshua. I'm glad you've found my article useful.

And thank you for introducing me to codingfantasy.com ! Need to start playing that to up my CSS game.

All the best

James Lieu Welcome. I am glad that I could have done that for you as well. Serving one and another in many ways than none 😁

I usually write simpler notes now. Sometimes complex writing becomes a task in itself and I start to procrastinate then.

Makes sense to me Asad.

I think I also fall into that trap, if writing simpler notes works for you, go for it :)

Yes, I'm using 📝Notion to document my works, ideas, and tasks. This article gave a clear insight into the benefits of doing that. 👍

Thanks for reading Basharath. I also use Notion now, its great!

Thanks for the cool article!

Love the way you’ve structured your post! It feels like you really care about your readers :)

Ciao!

You're welcome Girolamo!

And thank you for the feedback, it means a lot!

Cool 😎 just what I needed

Thank you for reading Ackon! Hope this was helpful

Awesome post james!

I'll implement this method into my daily workflow. Thanks for the inspiration!

You're welcome!

Once you have a few entries, remember to read them from time to time, you'd be surprised how much better you've become.

This is awesome 🔥

Definitely going to make a journal!

Thank you! I'm glad to hear you're going to start your journal

I’m doing this while I learn the ropes, but with a paper notebook. Although I’m barely in the middle of learning HTML, it’s helped me a lot with retaining information and keeping me focused.

Paper notebooks are a great way to journal. Sometimes stepping away from the laptop screen allows for a more deeper focus and thought-process when adding your journal entry.

Thanks for reading and commenting Adriana!

Thanks for posting this James, I have always considered journaling (and blogging) development as a way to share and hold yourself accountable for the progress you make.

It also serves as a great reference when you know you did something before but do not remember the details, yay for search :)

You're welcome and thank you for reading.

You make a good point about holding ourselves accountable for progress we make and serving as a great reference to something you've done before.

You'd be surprised how much you've grown once you look back and read some of those past entries.

I'm implementing this for sure! I just created a Programming journal template in my note-making tool called Obisidian.

I'm glad to hear it! Thank you for reading

Can you provide one of the pages of your journal, please?

Sure, here's a screenshot of one of my earlier entries. I used MS OneNote at the time.

Another forum to create journal entries is via blogging. I've written these with the intention that only I would read them. Here is a list of my past entries: jameslieu.co.uk/all-posts

thank you, i needed those to know how to start my own programming journal. James Lieu

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