Notations standards

When you find yourself having to manage a lot of very complex projects, perhaps a single page app where there are many pages and many input groups, popups and more what types of notation do you use to quickly find all the connections?

I use fairly organized naming of reuseables/pages and fields

in the fields I add emojis to show relationships
:arrow_right:child of this thing
:mag:lookup field that is used for search/filtering (looks up parent or childs data and writes it to current data)
:link:parent of this thing

for field naming I use fairly standard naming

name_first
name_last

I also silo the data so I try to only have 20 or so fields per silo
this complicates the data structure a little bit but makes it much cleaner later on
ie for contacts

contact (lightweight search object)
contact_detail (main detail object)
contact_preference (siloed object)

although quite often I don’t need to create that many silos because it comes back to data structuring.
ie you might have 20 links you want to store on a contact (facebook, tiktok, instagram etc)
you could hold each in a field on contact_detail
or you could create a data for “social_account” with type (facebook, twitter), contact, link, followers etc - now you can add 20 links into 1 field on the contact detail

in terms of documentation I do a lot of looms
I don’t use the notes in bubble
I use the search tool a lot
when I offload a project I’ll create a data and elements index/map - but I do this on the offload not during the project as it is too fluid and just creates excess work I don’t need to do

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