Sunday night, three weeks ago.
I opened a folder called for instance amzapp looking for a developer secret I was sure I had saved somewhere. Six other folders turned up instead. larify. arify. amz. Amzs. skayel360. brevlin. Every one of them held a piece of the same side project. An Amazon seller profit tracker I had been building on and off for months.
None of them held the whole picture.
If you keep a side project alive between real work, you already know this feeling. You open it up after a gap, and the first hour goes to onboarding yourself back into it instead of building. Which folder is current. Which key still works. What you tried last time and why it failed.
I spent that hour again, then finally did the thing I should have done the first time. I stopped trying to remember and wrote it all down in one place instead.
