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I get this one so much. I don't consider myself a developer because I tend to just touch code but that means I won't touch any for weeks. Worse I tend to do a lot of poc or boot strapping type of things and so its like there was a user story last pi to check the feasibility of something and now have a user story to get it regularly working in a poc env and I have forgotten everything about that particular system or language or whatever.
That's why we keep notes... Literate DevOps is a solution for my preferred editor, but there definitely are solutions for other tools too, even if they don't work exactly the same.
I can't recommend keeping notes too much.
I mean thats great but finding the notes is always a chore to because so much has been done between now and then and there are a lot of stuff done with their own notes. We are actually required to document in like 3 different ways although we don't need to do all 3 all the time. informal, formal internal, formal customer.
I'm not going to argue, because I don't know your work environment, but the notes I mentioned weren't supposed to be published or attached to the product. They're more of a personal knowledge base, where you can look up former approaches, issues found in the past, reasoning, decisions with context... All the zettelkasten tools out there do exactly that: help maintaining a useful knowledge base.