Keeping track of changes / What do you do!?

Hi All,
I've been running various flavours of Debian for several years now, and only recently decided to give Arch a go! I've started with my TV media centre. Everything has gone beautifully. It was flawless! It's a quick and responsive as I've ever seen it. The guides in the Wiki are amazing.
Now that it's working - I'm thinking..."how did I get here?" - What packages have I installed? What config files have I changed? Which directories did I create? Which timezone, local etc. settings did I change? Could I get back here tomorrow if I had to?
So "$ pacman -Qqe" seems to have my first question covered - I can fairly easily compile a list of what installed. Does anyone have any pointers to establishing the answer of my other queries?
The main reason for my post though is: What do you do to prevent yourself from losing track of your system/config changes?
Do you manually document what you do? Take copies of your commands? Backup your config files before changing them (allowing for a diff later)? Or something else?
Thanks for reading - I would love to know how everyone else approaches this!

eekavic wrote:As I expected, no easy way of retrospectively working out what I've changed. I'm tempted to start again with a view to making sure I track what I've done.
Retrospectively working out the changes and settings is definitely tough. I'm going to second the recommendation for GNU Stow: https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/. It's very simple to manage all of your configuration files in a single git repo, and with one command you can symlink them to their proper location. It makes for a nicely organized repo: you can see how mine here. I haven't tried etckeeper yet, though. It looks interesting.
I've also been thinking a small script that will save a text file with all of my installed packages - then if I ever need to I can reinstall through those. Haven't got it yet, though.

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