Looking back on past self, one thing I wish I’d realised is the importance of keeping notes of everything.

回顧過去的自我，我希望我意識到的一件事是記錄所有事情的重要性。

This means everything interesting I’ve read and written; every methodology and screen I’ve designed, every big or difficult problem I’ve solved, every interesting research finding, every great photo from every weird testing set up.

這意味著我已經閱讀和編寫了所有有趣的東西。 我設計的每一種方法和屏幕，我解決的每一個大問題或難題，每一個有趣的研究發現，每一個怪異的測試設置的每張出色照片。

For the last 5 years I’ve been doing this, but I wish I’d started 15 years ago instead.

在過去的5年中，我一直在這樣做，但我希望我早在15年前就開始了。

為什么這很重要？ (Why is this important?)

You’re going to really regret not saving those great research photos somewhere sensible when you need to write your portfolio.

當您需要編寫自己的作品集時，您真的會后悔沒有將那些出色的研究照片保存在合理的位置。

You’re going to kick yourself when someone asks you for the 8th time to design a methodology you’ve already written and lost.

當有人第八次要求您設計已經編寫并迷失的方法時，您將踢自己。

You can take this as far as you want, but in 5–10 years time when you’re teaching other people what you’ve learned, you’re going to wish you’d stored it all.

您可以隨心所欲地做到這一點，但是在5到10年的時間里，當您向其他人傳授所學知識時，您會希望自己將其全部存儲起來。

保存什么？ (What to save?)

Well it’s overwhelming isnt it. So much to learn and Medium alone is a treasure trove of content. Here are the things I recommend saving (from experience), and some tips how to do it, using some of the most useful free tools I’ve found.

好吧， 這是壓倒性的 。 要學習的東西太多了，而僅Medium是內容的寶庫。 這是我建議(根據經驗)保存的東西，以及使用一些我發現的最有用的免費工具進行操作的提示。

I would focus firstly on things you’ve done:

首先，我將重點介紹您所做的事情:

1.圖片和案例研究 (1. Photos and case studies)

Make a good habit of writing up at least notes, and collating photos of every project you’ve worked on. Don’t worry about writing the whole thing long form — a simple way to do this is to make a template of headings (such as project name, role, challenge, activities, outcomes) that can be filled out in 15 minutes at the end of a project.

養成至少寫筆記，并整理所從事的每個項目的照片的好習慣。 不用擔心將整個內容寫成長格式，一種簡單的方法是制作一個標題模板(例如項目名稱，角色，挑戰，活動，結果)，該模板可以在15分鐘內填寫完畢一個項目。

2.文章 (2. Articles)

Anything you’ve written. Even if you’ve not posted it online. Even if you’ve never been officially published, save everything. Even the stuff people ask you to write for a client or a pitch or their boss, where you explain XYZ. Create a little wiki of subjects. You can do this simply using any number of tools (see below).

您寫的任何東西。 即使您尚未在線發布。 即使您從未正式發布過，也請保存所有內容。 甚至有人要求您為客戶，推銷員或他們的老板寫信的東西，在這里您要解釋XYZ。 創建主題的小百科。 您可以簡單地使用任何數量的工具(請參見下文)來執行此操作。

3.方法論 (3. Methodologies)

Doesn’t matter what you’ve written — it can be a full client proposal, some notes on something you think will work, or a doodle that solves a process problem — keep it all, so long as it’s robust. Even if it’s something you’ve run, and learned not to do again, keep it. Especially if it’s that.

不管您寫什么內容(可以是完整的客戶建議，您認為可以使用的東西的注釋，也可以是解決過程問題的涂鴉)，只要功能強大，就可以保留所有內容。 即使您已經運行了某個東西，并且學會了不要再做，也要保留它。 尤其是那樣的話。

Then things you’ve discovered:

然后您發現的東西:

4.鏈接 (4. Links)

Trying to re-find something you thought was great 3 years ago is painful. Use a “read later” type app to save your favourites. Just don’t get into the habit of saving billions of links and articles you never read. Make it a practice to save things you’ve actually read, or put aside time for focused reading.

嘗試重新發現3年前您認為很棒的東西很痛苦。 使用“稍后閱讀”類型的應用程序保存您的收藏夾。 只是不要養成節省數十億從未讀過的鏈接和文章的習慣。 練習保存您實際閱讀的內容，或留出時間集中閱讀 。

5.行情 (5. Quotes)

Things your bosses and mentors and industry heroes say are worth keeping; things that resonate now, next week or in years to come. You don’t have to follow everyone’s guidance, but it’s worth having it just in case. Look at Covid — you never know when the world is going to turn on its axis.

您的老板，導師和行業英雄所說的話值得保留； 現在，下周或未來幾年引起共鳴的事物。 您不必遵循每個人的指導，但是值得以防萬一。 看一下Covid，您永遠不知道世界何時會轉軸。

6.想法和概念 (6. Ideas and concepts)

You’ll read a lot of books and articles, and have a lot of conversations. You won’t have all of these literally sitting on a shelf around you, so if you find something special, make a note of the idea and where it came from. you never know when you’ll want to track it down again.

您將閱讀很多書籍和文章，并進行很多對話。 您不會將所有這些字面意思放在您周圍的架子上，因此，如果您發現一些特別的東西，請記下該主意及其來源。 您永遠不會知道何時要再次查找。

免費的存儲和管理工具: (Free tools for storage and curation:)

Books are great, but piles of paper and old post-its are unwieldy to manage over the years. Go cloud-based, and find a solution that allows you to put the most stuff on the same platform, and access it from any device.

書籍很棒，但是這些年來，成堆的紙張和舊的帖子難以管理。 基于云，找到一種解決方案，使您可以將最多的東西放在同一平臺上，并可以從任何設備訪問它。

• Google Drive, Drop box, etc — Dumping things in the cloud is quick and easy. But your future self will really thank you for putting things in folders with appropriate names. Create a series of “Word” style docs, give them meaningful subject-matter titles and store them in relevant folders. See, I told you IA was useful.

  Google云端硬盤，收件箱等 -將內容轉儲到云中非常容易。 但是，您未來的自己會真的感謝您將其放入具有適當名稱的文件夾中。 創建一系列“ Word”樣式的文檔，為它們提供有意義的主題標題并將其存儲在相關文件夾中。 看， 我告訴你IA很有用 。

• MS notes — Great if it’s your own account. But don’t forget, if you use a work account you might forget to take it with you when you change jobs.

  MS注釋 -如果是您自己的帳戶，則很好。 但是請不要忘記，如果您使用工作帳戶，則在換工作時可能會忘記隨身攜帶。

• Wordpress — Doesn’t have to be live, you can use a free personal blog as a storage repository until you are ready to make your real portfolio site. Plus you can and keep it private.

  Wordpress —不必實時運行，您可以使用免費的個人博客作為存儲庫，直到準備好創建真正的投資組合網站為止。 另外，您可以將它設為私有。

• Pocket — Just for saving links, but even with the free version you can tag the crap out of everything and find stuff again pretty easily.

  掌上電腦 —僅用于保存鏈接，但即使使用免費版本，您也可以標記所有內容中的廢話，并輕松地再次查找內容。

• Evernote — A lot of people like Evernote, but they push you from free into paid really quickly, so it’s not one of my faves. But if you’ve got it already, then this is probably what you want to use.

  Evernote-很多人都喜歡Evernote，但是他們確實很快將您從免費變成了付費，所以這不是我的最愛。 但是，如果您已經擁有了它，那么這可能就是您想要使用的。

• Notion.so — I’ve recently discovered this, and it’s a great way of putting together all sorts of resources from lists to spreadsheets. It’s also a good stand in for knocking out a quick shareable resource like this. Also ideal if you are at the stage of teaching others.

  Notion.so-我最近發現了這一點，這是將列表到電子表格中各種資源整合在一起的好方法。 這也是淘汰像這樣的快速可共享資源的良好代表。 如果您正在教別人，那也是理想的選擇。

重要提示 (Top tips)

• Keep it up — Add to this a little every week or every month. Never leave it more than 4 weeks or you’ll just stop forever.

  保持現狀 —每周或每月稍微增加一點。 永遠不要離開超過4周，否則您將永遠停止。

• Keep it clean — Review it periodically and delete or archive any old stuff. You can always invest in a physical external hardrive for your long term back up and just keep the last couple of years online.

  保持清潔 —定期檢查并刪除或存檔任何舊內容。 您可以隨時為外部備份購買物理外部硬盤，并保持最近幾年的聯機狀態。

• Keep it lean — There are so many online and cloud tools now that there weren’t when I started out to help you with this. Just keep the number low and use each one for as many things as possible. You don’t want to have to search 20 tools for one piece of content.

  保持精簡 —現在有許多在線和云工具，當我剛開始為您提供幫助時就沒有。 只需保持較低的數字，然后將每個數字用于盡可能多的事情即可。 您不需要為一件內容搜索20種工具。

The secret is little and often. When you look back, you’ll realise how far you’ve come and how much you’ve done and learned. Your future self will thank you.

這個秘密很少而且經常發生。 當您回頭看時，您會意識到自己走了多遠，已經學到了多少。 您未來的自我會感謝您。