Ask HN: How do you track what you learn?

I stole his idea[1] and created jekyll blog on Github, I can just create a new .md file and put the things for the til down. With the new upload feature from github you can also just write the md file locally and just drop it in.

I like it so far, just need to get in the habit of writing it down daily.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11068902 [1] https://github.com/jbranchaud/til [2] http://arminmsg.github.io/blog/til/ http://arminmsg.github.io/blog/til/

So what I do is the following:

1. I break down what I've learned into steps or checklists

2. I then put these into Scrivener

3. Each topic that I've learned has it's own page

Here's a small example from my notes around PDF generation + attachments in Rails. This is just the overall picture -- each bullet point expands to another bunch of notes which has actual code details.

* build a mailer with mail(to:, from: content:)

* build a controller what delivers that content

* the controller should render a notice that says that the post has been successfully created <via a respond_to method>

* make sure that you configure the SMTP settings

* build a pdf creator (PrawnPDF::Base) => this initializes a PDF w/ some view_context

* configure a MIME type within config/initializers

* configure a controller that triggers a respond_to for this

* add a button that links to think Printable receipt

* save the PDF into some foldere

* insert a paperclip file type into the migration

* add this intot he user model

* go back to the PDF / order controller and then add a custom path to save the PDF (pdf.render file…)

* then save that file inside teh database & set it to the certificate

https://github.com/gollum/gollum