Logging my work has helped in many occasions. I think it’s come the most handy in research settings. I’ve been a research assistant for about 2.5 years now and have been working on the same project which is now being written into a paper. In order to put the paper together I need the details of all the experiments that were done, and the results. Logging all the methods, procedures, and dates of when everything was done has helped immensely in putting all of this together. In some cases I even regret not being more organized about the way I log some of the lab experiments because it really makes your life easier in the long run. It helps with traceability which is not only important in the research setting but in industry as well.