(https://theflowforgestudio.gumroad.com/l/rmuajk)
I have been an engineer for a while now and for the longest time I kept trying different planners and apps to get my work life under control.
None of them worked. Not because I was lazy. Because they were all built for a completely different kind of person.
Every planner I tried had sections like "morning intention" and "what am I grateful for today" and "water intake tracker." I am not saying those are bad. I am saying when I sit down at 8am I have three open bugs, a PR waiting for review, a sprint standup in 20 minutes and an OPC UA integration that decided to stop working overnight. Gratitude journaling is not going to fix that.
So I stopped looking for something that fit and just built my own.
Here is what I actually needed and what I put in:
A proper hourly schedule that starts at 6am not 9am because engineers don't keep banker hours. Space for deep work blocks because context switching is the real enemy of getting anything done. A kanban sprint section because that is how most engineering teams actually track work. A bug log with severity levels and status columns. A project tracker with milestones and a risk section. A code review log for PRs because that was always just a mess of browser tabs before.
I printed it out and used it for a few weeks before putting it out. It actually stuck.
If you are an engineer or developer who has also given up on normal planners I put it up here in case it helps anyone:
https://theflowforgestudio.gumroad.com/l/rmuajk
It is just a PDF right now but I am building more tools specifically for technical people. Node-RED templates, IoT resources, automation guides, developer web tools. All coming from actual daily engineering work not someone who read a book about productivity.
Would genuinely love feedback. What sections would you add? What do you wish existed that nobody has built yet?
https://theflowforgestudio.gumroad.com/l/rmuajk
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