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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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Ben Halpern

I'm a little old fashioned and use a physical notebook. I use our team tools for team progress, but personally I find I like to write in a book, cross things out, sometimes put a symbol to represent nuance that is just for me.

One software tool in the ole toolbelt I really do like is git standup.

It's nothing elaborate, but it's a nice little git tool that helps me recall recent commits. My work isn't so tightly tied to my coding commits anymore, but it's still a really useful little utility in general.

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Mehul Lakhanpal

That's nice. Physical books are the best. I'll checkout what git standup is. Thanks :)

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Ricardo Zorzal Davila

I had developed a CLI for something like this command. npmjs.com/package/git-report

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Sherry Day

Our team uses Notion so I use it for a lot of personal stuff to not change context

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Mehul Lakhanpal

That's great. All my life is on Notion too. My team uses Coda though.

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Gonçalo Dias

TFS, and also use Clockify

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Mehul Lakhanpal

Clockify is for time tracking on chrome tabs I guess?

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Medea

I use GitHub for issues, commiting and logging

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Luc Yen

I use OneNote myself.

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Abbey Perini

I've started using the app Structured on iOS. Before that I used Plan.

I also write physical notes - one page for each day. I put the date at the top along with a to do list and any notes I take that day. Usually everything's grouped by ticket number or meeting name.

I set up the next day in my time blocking app and notes before I sign off each day.

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Mehul Lakhanpal

I am on team android for now. Anyways good to know :) Thanks

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Abbey Perini

Plan is on android. 🙂

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Tawhid

On how much coffee powder was there before and how much is now left .
Jokes aside , I use "Clickup" to monitor progress.

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Pandita

I have an obsidian vault for work, a scheduled vertical planner for work as well (I know I could do it in Obsidian but I like the planner!), I have a small snoopy planner for my personal and home tasks and another for my habit tracking :3

I don't use them everyday because life just happens, but having them has helped me a lot to be on top of my work and to know what is happening during a week. It's also great for personal retrospectives :3

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mirko

My best friend since many years is a simple plain text file journal.
I create a section for every work day and create a new file every year.

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Mario Santini

I just use a todo list, but I'm not regular.

Usually I work on a single task for days or weeks, and don't have many other different activities to worry about.

But in that case I just use a plain todo lists with an Atom extension called Tasks.

I also use the Outlook calendar to keep track of those activities where time frame and date is important, not only in the future.

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alfiks

Usually Notion and a good old notebook.

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Mehul Lakhanpal

Many people seem to use Notebook approach. Good to know that.