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Ask HN: How do you, personally, keep a work journal?
Assuming you keep one. For a long time, I've kept a paper journal for work - usually just 2 lines each day - the day and date, and a line or two of what I did. Helps with standup meetings the next day and has also been helpful to look back and find out when I worked on something.
I'm quite partial to paper but I occasionally would like to search, so I'm thinking of an electronic format - text file, google doc, or something else.
What are your suggestions for keeping an electronic journal?
- empressplay 10y agoIsn't that what commit logs are for?
- nevster 10y agoPerhaps I should say 'work journal'. It's not necessarily code related. I've updated the title to clarify. Thanks!
- kjksf 10y agoI recently started using http://notion.so http://notion.so (not just for a journal but for other note-taking as well). I quite like it. Before that I used my own http://quicknotes.io http://quicknotes.io and before that http://workflowy.com http://workflowy.com
- confounded 10y agoGeekbot.
- drKarl 10y agoMaybe http://jrnl.sh/ http://jrnl.sh/ ?
- chrisbennet 10y agoI keep multiple journals, one per project. I use Notepad and a program I wrote years ago to total the hours up for billing purposes. It's great for long term remembering, like what settings were used for a serial port, links to downloads, etc. I also like to put a "Next:..." line at the end of the day so when I open the log in the next morning I immediately know what I need to work on.
- brudgers 10y agoEmacs org-mode?
- jdavis4665 10y agoI use the "Work" journal from Stealth Journals.