Ask HN: People working remotely, how do you plan your workday?

We use GitLab with templates for issues(bug, incident, feature) and Slack.

We also have a Slack workspace for our platform users where they can ask questions, or report bugs or incidents. If users ask a question on how to do something many times, we open an issue for improvement, ux, documentation, etc.

If the users complain something isn't working, we'll open an issue for a bug.

If they report an incident, we'll solve the problem and write up the incident. If it happens more than once, we'll open an issue and solve it.

This pushes development and prioritizes our work. By the third time people complain about something you go alright, it's time to solve this.

If it's something that _prevents_ users work, it shoots up in priority.

You say your problem is that you don't do planning, so perhaps that is where you should start. As with all other methods to organise yourself (e.g. a todo list on paper), they work but you have to actually use them consistently.

Daily:

- Look at calendar (see if/when I have meetings)

- Make a To Do list and attach it to my monitor (it's quite gratifying to check something off, and that fact's helped me a lot)

- Find out if I have anything due that day, and if so to make that a priority

- Make sure my Git branches are up-to-date

Monday/week start:

- Find out if I have any deadlines, and if so when

I keep a todo list in a text file and it worked really well. been doing it for last 4 years.