For me, it depends where I am. If I'm sat on a train without a plug socket for my laptop I scribble notes and ideas down on paper. If I have my laptop then I use the electronic version, a text editor, to scribble down notes and ideas.

Edit: I've attached a text file for a class I'm writing at the moment. The text file is my general dumping ground for this class - it started out with the flow to get it clear in my head what I wanted it to do, then I added and expanded the classes / methods / properties as I planned them. At the moment, I'm using it to list all the exception codes, descriptions and where they appear so I can add them into future docs.

I'll often use pen/paper or a whiteboard to sketch out flow charts of how the application should work as well - tends to help when you come to coding it.

Alan

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