I have tried a lot of methods for organizing notes on my various projects. Like many people, I tend to start projects at a faster rate than I finish them, and so it’s important to be able to keep track of where I am within my projects.
At first, I used Zim, an open source desktop wiki program. It is pretty nice, but I became annoyed at it once I had to convert all of my notes for building this site into HTML for my site (another project I have yet to finish).
Now, I have streamlined the process. Instead of creating project notes and then making a web page once I am done, I start my project with a draft WordPress page and make all my notes there. Then, when the project is finished, I clean up the notes, add references, tables, and formatting, and change the page status to published. No transition necessary!
I think this is a really great idea for WordPress users, since it provides a personal project notebook that can be shared with the world just by clicking publish. I think it also makes my pages much more interesting if they contain information from all the stages of a project, instead of a streamlined view created afterwards.
As a side note, I have often thought about barely using WordPress and instead making all of my projects into Git repositories at code.aidanmontare.net. That would make it easier for everyone to make comments on and help improve my articles. Unfortunately, that seems like a project for another day.