Do you keep a work journal?

If so, what are your tools for this?

Comments

[Mike Lockhart]

I have a project in GitLab which had an issue board like Trello, as well as a simple wiki for reference notes. I maintain some issue templates for making log entries or experiment notes, and I keep general code tools and snippets here

[Damon Chen]

I log my work journal on IndieLog. It's 2 minute video every day. I've been doing this for about 3 months, and I've recorded nearly 100 vlogs. It shows how I built the product, how I grow it, etc. Btw, here it is: indielog.com/user/damon

[Florian Polster]

No I don't

[Antonio J.]

A notebook an a pen for daily work. notion.so for complex planning or side projects.

[munyoki_kilyungi]

Yeah I do. What I use? Org-mode. First off, I begin by capturing the task:

After that, I just clock in. Notice- on the right half- it automatically opens up a pane(we call it a window in Emacs) where I can take notes:
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From here, I can choose to create a time estimate or take notes while working. Also, I can link to file(s), choose to run code inside, pull in code(!) from outside(literate programming) and a bunch of other things I won't get into. Once I'm done, I simply mark the task as done and the clock is stopped, displaying how long it took(notice I took 13 minutes for this task):
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At the end of my day, I will archive the task(there's an automatic way of doing this). I'll then go to a work_log.org file where I'll generate an automatic report.
For this example I've logged other work too:

Notice how I can tweak tags, time range, display links to tags.

PS:

• You can integrate org-mode with other tools like trello
• You can view all your task in a window called the org-agenda buffer
• You can version your org-files \o/\o/

[Nitsan Avni]

I've also built my own.
I love mindmaps and I love the cli.
As a system I've pretty much stuck with GTD for the last decade or so.

[Anderson-Karena]

I have a whiteboard where I've drawn a big + giving 4 quadrants. One is for TODOs, One is for CONTACT (email, calls, meetings), One is for PERSONAL (pay bills, exercise etc.) and the last one is OTHER (for those ideas or new things to explore that come to you, to schedule some other time). I sort my day out on that first. More detailed stuff for major tasks goes on a Trello board. Journal is OneNote. But the big board quickly sketches how the whole day is going to go.

[Tamara Temple]

I use pen and paper journals for engineering notes, drawings, mind maps, discussion notes, etc. I'm not a bujo person, I don't have that many different things to keep track of like that.

With work, we have Jira to provide a macro task list.

I'm also deep into using Notion.so these days, and keep track of a lot of different things there, including scans of my journal pages. Spending time on Sunday evening in review, capturing important thoughts, notes, links, potential devblog articles, documentation updates , and rough plan for the coming week keeps stuff from getting too unmanageable and keeps all that hand-written stuff accessible.

Prior to using Notion, I was a heavy user of Emacs's org-mode for note capture. Keeping track of scanned journal pages was hit or miss, as well as keeping it organized.

[Kevin McGinn]

Yes, I keep a work journal using OneNote; it's really helpful to have a searchable, digital memory to supplement my meat-based one! 😅 I wrote a post about my style of journaling a while ago, and it hasn't changed much since then!

Journaling at Work

Kevin McGinn ・ Dec 11 '18 ・ 5 min read

#career #productivity

[Tony Alves]

Yes:

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