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1. Usually you need to look through multiple posts to find your answer. It's still quick, but remembering you wrote up about it before and searching for it and seeing your more precise note about it is faster.

2. I've been using mine to also keep track of tools I encounter but don't have time to investigate, or for hotkeys or features in specific applications that I didn't realize were there before. I just took a quick glance at my old notes and was reminded about a feature in XCode that I had completely forgotten about since I wrote the note.

3. It's great for a refresher before diving back into a language you've had on the backburner for awhile, and/or before going in for interviews where you know you're going to be quizzed on random knowledge from past languages you've used before but maybe not recently.




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