I have started (Slowly) writing things down, they will be put on index cards. No need to worry about updates and crashes. LOL Just get a good old recipe box to hold them. Anything important will be put down with a place to find it or a storage box number for kits. Now this is not for the average parts just rare things that I found out what it was on here or other places.
After my Dad had his stroke last year I see the importance of labels now.