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What Got Done, a minimalist tool for teammates to share weekly status updates with each other. https://whatgotdone.com/ https://whatgotdone.com/ I'm a solo de

What Got Done, a minimalist tool for teammates to share weekly status updates with each other. https://whatgotdone.com/ https://whatgotdone.com/ I'm a solo developer and find it gratifying to set aside a half hour at the end of each week to write down what I did. Otherwise all the work just becomes a blur. I wrote a longer blog post about the motivation behind it here: https://mtlynch.io/status-updates-to-nobody/ https://mtlynch.io/status-updates-to-nobody/

jessehorne 7y ago
I have had a pretty incredible urge lately to work on some similar software. I'd love an app, for example, like Committed (linked below) that had SIMPLE live-collaboration functionality. Figured I would demo that pretty soon, make a site, and see if it could gain some traction. Looking forward to seeing how this progresses. (forgot to add the link!) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/committed-newtab-todo-and/mffcogdacgpjnckjepacaicfliaocneb?hl=en-US https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/committed-newtab-t...
- mtlynch 7y ago
  Thanks for checking it out! >like Committed (linked below) I can't find the link you're referring to. Did you mean to add a link to the bottom of your post?
  - jessehorne 7y ago
    Sorry about that! I fixed it. Thanks for letting me know.
splittingTimes 7y ago
I have a "lab book", but I stopped writing into it. It mostly contains information i gathered about a particular section of the code base or how a solution might work or what I learned about our business domain. But over time the constant context switching of topics I had to work on made me stop it. I would like to revive it. However, i want the information in there (the lessons learned this week) to be less project/issue specific, but more transcending and transferable to new problems/environments. Do you have a set of questions you pose yourself whose answers guide the write-up and make it a worthwhile knowledge vault? === Not sure if I expressed myself in a coherent way.
- mtlynch 7y ago
  Oh, that's interesting. I do some introspection when I'm writing my weekly updates[1], but not to the depth that you're describing. But What Got Done should work as a lab book, although I haven't implemented search yet, and it sounds like that might be important to you. The time when I do deeper reflection is when I write my monthly retrospectives. [2] I don't have a standard set of questions that I ask myself, but that's a good idea. My method so far has been to state what lessons I learned, evaluate how I did against my goals for the month, and define goals for the subsequent month. [1] http://whatgotdone.com/michael http://whatgotdone.com/michael [2] https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/ https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/

jessehorne 7y ago

I have had a pretty incredible urge lately to work on some similar software. I'd love an app, for example, like Committed (linked below) that had SIMPLE live-collaboration functionality. Figured I would demo that pretty soon, make a site, and see if it could gain some traction. Looking forward to seeing how this progresses. (forgot to add the link!) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/committed-newtab-todo-and/mffcogdacgpjnckjepacaicfliaocneb?hl=en-US https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/committed-newtab-t...

mtlynch 7y ago
Thanks for checking it out! >like Committed (linked below) I can't find the link you're referring to. Did you mean to add a link to the bottom of your post?
- jessehorne 7y ago
  Sorry about that! I fixed it. Thanks for letting me know.

splittingTimes 7y ago

I have a "lab book", but I stopped writing into it. It mostly contains information i gathered about a particular section of the code base or how a solution might work or what I learned about our business domain. But over time the constant context switching of topics I had to work on made me stop it. I would like to revive it. However, i want the information in there (the lessons learned this week) to be less project/issue specific, but more transcending and transferable to new problems/environments. Do you have a set of questions you pose yourself whose answers guide the write-up and make it a worthwhile knowledge vault? === Not sure if I expressed myself in a coherent way.

mtlynch 7y ago
Oh, that's interesting. I do some introspection when I'm writing my weekly updates[1], but not to the depth that you're describing. But What Got Done should work as a lab book, although I haven't implemented search yet, and it sounds like that might be important to you. The time when I do deeper reflection is when I write my monthly retrospectives. [2] I don't have a standard set of questions that I ask myself, but that's a good idea. My method so far has been to state what lessons I learned, evaluate how I did against my goals for the month, and define goals for the subsequent month. [1] http://whatgotdone.com/michael http://whatgotdone.com/michael [2] https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/ https://mtlynch.io/retrospectives/