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John Alcher

I maintain a Trello board where I put my planned tasks for a given day. I try to keep all the relevant information within each card, and then move them to the "Weekly Done" column by the end of the day. I also keep a running list of "Scrum Reports" on a separate column where I summarize what I did for the day, what I plan to achieve tomorrow, and any potential blockers. At the end of the week, I duplicate the "Weekly Done" column, move all the cards on a huge "Done" list, and then move the original one on the far right side of the Trello board. This way, I have a running archive of things I done weekly while still having a granular, daily view accessible to me.

The extra amount of work to maintain this board is kind of a hidden blessing, since it forces me to think and plan harder on what my next steps would be. It did a solid on my productivity ever since I started maintaining it.