Ask HN: How do you manage your day to day work logs? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your day to day work logs?

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Post by lcall » Thu, Jul 27, 2017, 4:43 PM UTC

taude wrote: post #25

I use a variation of the Bullet Journal, but I use MSFT One Note to manage it. I think the big thing, no matter what you do, is to establish a routine of reviewing it for a few minutes daily. No matter where you're capturing ideas, todos, status etc, I believe you need to have dedicated mental processing time to maintain the list, keep it clean, organize priority, etc. Even if you can't do it daily (you may not need…

i strongly second this need for a routine proceses, with whatever tool.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your day to day work logs?

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Post by senorsmile » Sat, Jul 29, 2017, 3:23 AM UTC

I'm not sure if I'm unique here. I track approximately every half hour of time I'm working in Google calendar. This fits nicely with other scheduled meetings. I usually just copy paste jira ticket number + title. At the end of the day, this helps me quickly total the number of hours spent on each ticket to enter into jira. For actual Todo items that aren't in jira, I use my email inbox. I do something very similar to something I saw posted on HN a few days ago called 'zeroinbox'.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your day to day work logs?

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Post by ivcha » Mon, Jul 31, 2017, 11:27 PM UTC

dbg31415 wrote: post #30

Google Docs works well too, I think. Just create a spreadsheet and log in your to-dos as needed. Makes it easy to go back over and track what you were able to accomplish. I spend 5 minutes every morning thinking about what I want to do that day, type out 3-5 key goals, then at the end of the day I copy and paste what I was able to do (with any amendments if I think of other things) into a Google Sheet. Easy to add th…

This is interesting, since there are so many tools out there designed to make these things easier -- e.g. I use taskwarrior with Gnome pomodoro... (Not to mention giving away personal data to the "cloud".)