>I started keeping such a book, and when I was doing lighting and
>power design it expanded to 15 thick volumes, now gathering dust
>since I am not in that industry anymore.   At one time I used them
>every day.  My electronics stuff is organized into a big directory
>on my hard drive, which nearly fills a CD with stuff that I might
>need to look up someday. 90% of it I will never need again, but it
>is easy to throw stuff in there as I run across it.  For example,
>just today I appended several threads on Tantalum Capacitors into
>a text file from another thread on the PIClist.

I do the same with emails. I have an archive file for most of the email
lists I am on, and nay interesting thing like links to interesting pages, or
other hints and tips, get moved to the appropriate archive file. Some like
the PICLIST archive have several subfolders, just to try and keep the chaos
in some vague sort of order.

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