Why Is Documenting Your Physics Research Essential?

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When you learn something new in physics do you add it to some website or book on your computer? If so why? If not why not?
 
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I don't, I don't really have any reason to bother with it.
 
Yes. Whenever I learn something new, I post it to my PF blog.
 
Whenever I come up with a great, new idea I build a clay model avatar of it and fire it in a Kiln. I have a whole collection in the basement. Lesser insights I typically just write down in my Trapper Keeper...:redface: