One of my fears is that the True List is super long, because most things-being-tracked are products of expertise in a particular field and there are just so many different fields.
Nevertheless:
In product/ux design, tracking the way things will seem to a naive user who has never seen the product before.
In navigation, tracking which way north is.
I have a ton of “tracking” habits when writing code:
types of variables (and simulated-in-my-head values for such)
refactors that want to be done but don’t quite have enough impetus for yet
loose ends, such as allocated-but-not-freed resources, or false symmetry (something that looks like it should be symmetric but isn’t in some critical way), or other potentially-misleading things that need to be explained
[there are probably a lot more of these that I am not going to write down now]
Nice post!
One of my fears is that the True List is super long, because most things-being-tracked are products of expertise in a particular field and there are just so many different fields.
Nevertheless:
In product/ux design, tracking the way things will seem to a naive user who has never seen the product before.
In navigation, tracking which way north is.
I have a ton of “tracking” habits when writing code:
types of variables (and simulated-in-my-head values for such)
refactors that want to be done but don’t quite have enough impetus for yet
loose ends, such as allocated-but-not-freed resources, or false symmetry (something that looks like it should be symmetric but isn’t in some critical way), or other potentially-misleading things that need to be explained
[there are probably a lot more of these that I am not going to write down now]
I could imagine a website full of such lists, categorized by task or field. Could imagine getting lost in there for hours...