I find I always fail out of the append-only approach (even though I realize it means I'm spending more ~orgnizational time/energy).
I can't claim to do it "regularly" in the sense that I do it every day, but I guess I do something like it in that almost every one of my projects has one or more PlainTask documents (i.e., documents that use org-mode-alike PlainTasks extension for Sublime Text).
These documents usually start one day as a scratch space to remind me what I was doing before I take a break, or to plan out the next few steps. In any non-trivial project, it'll tend to grow to at least a few hundred lines, and almost all of them accrue a top-level section, at the top, titled KNOWLEDGE, where I (my better self, at least) try to record slippery or hard-won technical details I picked up along the way (even if I'm not smart enough to note them the first time or two I have to bang my head against them).
I may not consult most of them again, but they can be a huge help when I get a chance to return to something that I had to back-burner 2 or 3 years earlier, and all of the critical detail has been displaced by newer ephemera...
I can't claim to do it "regularly" in the sense that I do it every day, but I guess I do something like it in that almost every one of my projects has one or more PlainTask documents (i.e., documents that use org-mode-alike PlainTasks extension for Sublime Text).
These documents usually start one day as a scratch space to remind me what I was doing before I take a break, or to plan out the next few steps. In any non-trivial project, it'll tend to grow to at least a few hundred lines, and almost all of them accrue a top-level section, at the top, titled KNOWLEDGE, where I (my better self, at least) try to record slippery or hard-won technical details I picked up along the way (even if I'm not smart enough to note them the first time or two I have to bang my head against them).
I may not consult most of them again, but they can be a huge help when I get a chance to return to something that I had to back-burner 2 or 3 years earlier, and all of the critical detail has been displaced by newer ephemera...