Connective Cube

Okay, I got the stink eye from a web developer once when I forgot to write down my password for the salesforce system. At the time, it didn’t cross my mind that he would spend ten minutes of his day securing my new information for the network.

The thing is, I have never been the type to document.  I live in the moment, jumping from one project to the next.  One habit I didn’t get myself into until recently was documenting my process with any user interface design or website process.

I am taking a course as well as working on a WordPress site for a friend of mine.  Until my class, I was bouncing from one idea to the next, downloading and implementing templates without reading the full documentation, and not keeping notes of my passwords or recent changes.

Add a hard drive crashing and a full-time job outside of this work, I realized I was losing a lot of time by forgetting my passwords, or relying too much on my own memory to rely on such detailed information.  Sometimes I would lose 30 minutes in a project recovering information, rethinking a password, NOT documenting it, and carrying on.

The program I am using right now?  Pen and paper.  It isn’t another screen to click, and it also serves as a catalyst for me to take a break.  All this knowledge isn’t useful unless someone else can pick up on where the project left off, especially for clients who plan on running their own sites in the future.  Or just type in password manager in any search engine.  Is there really an excuse?