Bookmarking isn't just for web browsers or paper books. With a child in our life, I've come to realize it is important to know where I left off with any task because my available time is often chopped into little pieces. I've come to see it valuable for work as well when there are many projects or tasks at hand and interruptions from emails, coworkers, meetings, etc.
The way I keep track of where I was last varies but I try to keep it digital, resorting to yellow stickies when a digital note is not feasible (e.g. Sorting through paper). With digital notes, it may be a README file at the root of a folder structure, an electronic calendar entry, or a spreadsheet stating what I did for a particular day and what I have planned for the next day or week. The key is that the digital note is somewhere you know you will look in the future or else it is easy to find with some digital search capability.
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