2.5. Cheat Sheets

When you are learning something new, a single piece of paper with cheat sheet would really help you to boost your productivity. Rather than remembering something, you can scan through a single page and quickly figure out how exactly something can be done.

Whether you are learning Git for Configuration Management, or learning to using some keyboard shortcuts of your new IDEs and Editors, cheat sheets will help. Some editors like VIM ( VI Improved ), Emacs are very powerful and commonly available on Linux based systems, but they have a learning curve. Even basic commands like saving file is not something that you would know without going through some help page or user manual.

From https://education.github.com/git-cheat-sheet-education.pdf, here a short snapshot.

An excerpt from the Git Cheat-Sheet

In such cases, it’s a good idea to either search the internet for a readily available cheat sheet for the new tool/domain. If something readily available does not help, then just prepare one for yourself with the repetitive tasks that you have to do. Now stick that cheat sheet on the wall. Somewhere you can quickly glance through easily. If you are stuck when using the new tool, then just glance at the sheet and get unblocked.

The website http://www.cheat-sheets.org/ has a good collection of many cheat sheets for you to refer and use.