Adding the numbers, since they settle part of this. Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason. In three months the reason is what you will have forgotten, and the reason is what makes the record worth having.
One thing that is still open after NurseKim_ATL’s answer:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?
TrialTracker_MD said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
Careful with the causal language. Two things moving together in a period when five things changed is not a mechanism, and stating it as one makes the thread less useful to somebody reading it later.
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Shop Reference StandardsTrialTracker_MD said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
Correct, and worth adding that it is reversible. Nothing being described here is a one-way door, which changes how cautious it is reasonable to be.
TrialTracker_MD said:Practical: whatever you change, write down the date and the reason.
Saving this. It is the first explanation that did not require me to already understand it. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.