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Discussion on: Developers, How do you track your daily work?

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Jesse M. Holmes

I write everything down in markdown files. I'd love to sync it to a secure repository, but I haven't looked into it. I suppose I could establish a gitlab setup at home, but maybe there is something better? Anyway, for now it's in a private gitHub repo, and if I feel like it shouldn't be written down, I don't.

As far as tracking the actual work, I've started taking note of tasks I've done more than a few times so that the next time they show up, I will have a realistic expectation for my estimate.

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scottshipp

I wouldn't feel so bad about using the cloud-based Gitlab or GitHub services, and I have done so in the past. If you have anything that you deem sensitive, an easy thing I have done is to add my "bare" markdown (*.md) files to .gitignore and then use PGP to encrypt them into *.pgp extension and then check in only the PGP-encrypted files. That should be more secure than a privately-hosted instance.

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Mehul Lakhanpal

Wow..that's dope. Good way check-in secure stuff.

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Jesse M. Holmes • Edited

This is so obvious. Must be why I missed it! Thanks, Scott!

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Filip Oščádal

PGP? why not OpenSSL = AES

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scottshipp

Sure, that would work similarly

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Mehul Lakhanpal

How about gist's?

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Jesse M. Holmes

Privately hosted gists? Is that what you mean?

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Mehul Lakhanpal

Yes