Keeping track of all the information you take in

[Raymond Wai]

Hey All,

I just started a few months ago and have been steadily taking in the wealth of information available here on BP. One thing that became very clear as I progressed was the way I had been storing information weren't robust enough. I used to create Google calendar events for action items or a spreadsheet to track research, but I started getting buried by the sheer amount of the information.

We use a task tracking software called JIRA at work so I decided to give it a try to track all the REI knowledge I was gaining. So far, it's been working pretty well and some of the features I've really appreciated are the custom workflows, ability to prioritize tasks, and ways to link tasks. I still create spreadsheets elsewhere, but I'll track the existence of the spreadsheet in the software as a task so I can go to one place to know what I have. Since I mainly chose JIRA because I was already familiar with it, I didn't really explore alternatives.

How do you all keep track of your information, and how has it been working for you?