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Mehul Lakhanpal
Mehul Lakhanpal

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Developers, How do you track your daily work?

There are platforms to track team progress (Jira, Trello) but how do you track your daily tasks on a personal level?

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Stuart Dotson

I use BeyondDone. It automatically generates a todo list from my employer Github, Jira, and Confluence accounts. When I complete something, it's automatically marked done. I manually add items for things from other platforms. beyonddone.com

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Vince Daniel De Leon

Wakatime

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Yogini Bende

I do it with the combination of 3 tools

  1. Wakatime
  2. Notion
  3. Clockify

Wakatime to track the total time I spend coding. I am totally in love with this tool and its integration with VSCode. It make me understand all the details of how and where I spend my time when I was coding, productive hours, technologies I code in, etc.

Notion is to have a sorted list of my tasks. I keep doing a lot of experiments with this.

Clockify, to allot the time to tasks. This is also optional as you can use simply any other task timer for this.

But these tools become very handy and help me a lot to be productive.

Hope this helps :)

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Mehul Lakhanpal

Yes, thanks for replying. I myself use Wakatime & Notion. Will try out Clockify. Thanks :)

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🌌 Sébastien Feugère ☔ • Edited

I keep a diary in a simple directory tree:

├── 2022
│   ├── 01
│   │   ├── 2022-01-25.md
│   │   ├── 2022-01-26.md
│   │   ├── 2022-01-27.md
│   │   ├── 2022-01-28.md
│   │   └── 2022-01-29.md
│   ├── 02
│   │   ├── 2022-02-01.md
│   │   ├── 2022-02-02.md
│   │   ├── 2022-02-03.md
│   │   ├── 2022-02-04.md
│   │   ├── 2022-02-07.md
│   │   ├── 2022-02-08.md
│   │   ├── 2022-02-09.md
│   │   ├── 2022-02-10.md
│   │   ├── 2022-02-14.md
│   │   ├── 2022-02-15.md
│   │   ├── 2022-02-16.md
│   │   ├── 2022-02-17.md
│   │   ├── 2022-02-18.md
│   │   ├── 2022-02-21.md
│   │   ├── 2022-02-22.md
│   │   ├── 2022-02-23.md
│   │   ├── 2022-02-24.md
│   │   ├── 2022-02-25.md
│   │   ├── 2022-02-28.md
│   └── 03
│       ├── 2022-03-01.md
│       ├── 2022-03-02.md
│       └── 2022-03-03.md

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Simple to grep or to browse manually. I have a script that allows to create the individual files. Each one contains a template that looks like:

# Project Name 2022-02-03

- done
- todo
- blocking
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I write everything in Markdown lists. I plan to improve the script so that what is left as todo in the previous day's entry is automatically added to the current day's entry.

I found out that this methodology helps me a lot to report to my managers and during daily stand-ups. Each time I achieve something noticeable, or I need to remember something that doesn't deserve interruption to my team, I stash it in the diary entry.

No matter to say that it can drastically improve the life of persons suffering from stress, anxiety or impostor syndrome.

If you find it useful, it is available.

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Mehul Lakhanpal

Wow.. that really cool

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MrakCw Dev

I use Code time app.
Everyday before one hour to end work time i have report from today) 🔥
And weekly report on email with all data))🌟
🚀 and this on free acc )
14+ month i use this app 👌

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Lutchenca Medeiros

I use a Notion template with "meeting notes", a basic kanban board with to do, doing and done, and overall pages with stuff I'm working on

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Fred Brooker

Google Keep :) I also keep Keeping when walking in the woods, putting in ideas.

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Manuel Ricci

I use Clickup for tracking tasks for my projects and Toggl to track time for each tasks. Clickup offers an integration for Toggl that permit me to avoid to pay for that kind of feature.

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official_dulin • Edited

Web Activity Time Tracker

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Natti Katz

I use personal trello board with 4 lists that I prioritize tasks according to the "Eisenhower Matrix"