I'm writing down few notes about a technical argument, I'm doing it also to understand them better, so in my intro I'm saying:
If you are reading this, I hope it will be useful for you like writing it was for me.
Mostrly my doubts are about the second part of the sentence:
like writing it was for me
Does it sound correct in English? There is a more correct way to express this thought?
I would probably say "I hope that reading this will be as useful for you as writing it was for me."
I don't think many people would quibble about the grammaticality of the slight rewrite
If you are reading this, I hope it will be useful for you, as writing it was for me.
This usage note from Collins English Dictionary seems to license the version with 'like':
It was [once] thought that as rather than like should be used to mean 'in the same way that', but now both as and like are acceptable: they hunt and catch fish as/like their ancestors used to.
The difference is that in the Collins example, the reading may well be that the methods rather than the hunting / fishing societies are being said to be comparable. Perhaps in OP's example 'like' is being stretched a little too far for some people.
