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Show HN: Record Your Accomplishments

72 points by samteeeee 5y ago

kaetemi 5y ago
I have a paper journal on my desk. Keeps me focused. Apps distract / disrupt flow too much for me.
cheesysam 5y ago
There will be lots of users who don't have the same workflow as a developer opening vim all day. People who spend their lives in meetings probably need the reminders. I like the idea and it's a super simple execution. PS. There's a typo in the html <title>.
nkko 5y ago
This is great. You should consider team version where everyone shares their accomplishements and you could have a joint team accomplishements table (manager or individuals could tag some of them appropriately). I would implement this with my team immidiately.
- samteeeee 5y ago
  This idea is now on the roadmap, thank you!
- samteeeee 5y ago
  How much per month would you be willing to pay for a team version?
sidcool 5y ago
Feature request. Enable saving with Cmd + Enter :) Also key board navigation.
- samteeeee 5y ago
  Added to roadmap, thanks!
quantumOctopus 5y ago
I like the spirit of this app but I invite every manager to encourage their team to do this already. Every time I have a 1:1 I push my team to stop and think about what they accomplished in their last week of work. I have a simple template in a shared doc where I have them celebrate their accomplishment every single week. I cheer for them and surprisingly many people are not used to take a step back and think about what they were great at. Hopefully this app will help more!
- gurjeet 5y ago
  Beware, though. Praise and celebrate genuine accomplishments, otherwise after a few occurrences, the people would just be turned off by it. Overdoing it can do more harm than good.
avmich 5y ago
Don't record your accomplishments. Be humble. Make good deeds as the way of life, don't record your highs - if they are memorable, you'll remember, and will be able to tell later, and if they are not, they aren't worth it. Take example from high achievers - did Einstein, or Feynman, or Dostoevsky recorded carefully their accomplishments? Should those who are more modest achievers - perhaps - record them? /s
- csdvrx 5y ago
  > Don't record your accomplishments. Be humble. This! Also, do it like backups the Linus way: let other record them for you :)
thereticent 5y ago
On one hand it reminds me of todone, but I like that it's weekly and focused on work and performance evaluations. I signed up for Pro. I think you may want to make a "pay what you want" option with $10 as the threshold for Pro features. I would have paid more, especially as it's a one-time payment. One note for you: the title of the pages on mobile are "Accoumplishment App" rather than "Accomplishments App." Probably an html title tag to edit.
- samteeeee 5y ago
  Thank you
ggoo 5y ago
A less work-centric and more personal-life-centric version of this is a gratitude journal. I started doing mine some years back and, much to my surprise, it does actually work. https://ggia.berkeley.edu/practice/gratitude_journal https://ggia.berkeley.edu/practice/gratitude_journal
arikr 5y ago
OP, what template or site builder or CSS packages did you use for the design? Or was it a custom design by you?
- samteeeee 5y ago
  Inspired by: https://cruip.com/demos/open-pro/ https://cruip.com/demos/open-pro/
- Brajeshwar 5y ago
  Not OP. A Bootstrap Theme.
  - arikr 5y ago
    Thanks
smcameron 5y ago
This is insane. You do not need an app for this. Just create a text file with vi(m). Type ":r !date" to get the date, then type in what you did at the top of the file. Then ":wq" to save and quit. That's it. I've done this for decades and it's perfect. An app? Are you insane? As if an app is going to last for more than 5 minutes.
- programmarchy 5y ago
  Yeah I’m sure that a janky text file will really impress a manager. Seriously, there’s something to be said for design.
  - wyclif 5y ago
    How many times are you going to send that file to a hiring manager? I'm guessing you probably would either 1/ Format it when it's interview time, or 2/ Format and bullet point the key takeaways. Either way, the overhead is mostly recording it, not processing it which shouldn't happen very often.
    - programmarchy 5y ago
      Paying $10 to not have to format something even once is a good deal, especially if I can just send out a link.
- quickthrower2 5y ago
  This is the “Dropbox is just rsync” comment
  - andretti1977 5y ago
    I was thinking exactly the same thing :D
    - leovander 5y ago
      If you haven't tried it, obsidian.md[0] has been killing it. You get to write your files in markdown and you can sync with git if you would like or toss it into your favorite share drive. I believe there is a built in daily tasks/note that you can trigger and there is a plugin that shows the daily notes you took on a calendar, to quickly check if you made one a certain day. The only caveat I will give is, is that you can do so much with it with the stock options and its graph and throw in the plugins you can get within the app, you can easily spend so much time trying to perfect everything. I got burnt out with notion really fast since most of the community at least on reddit gravitates to showing off what your landing page looks like. [0] https://obsidian.md/ https://obsidian.md/
quickthrower2 5y ago
Nice app idea. I set up a slack reminder to do the same, so there is a need and a problem to be solved. I wouldn’t pay for this but something to think about is an organisation might because they should want to know what their staff have achieved. Otherwise all they have to go on is completed tasks - which we all know isn’t everything. There is value in gap fillers. A org focused product would be great especially if it was rounded with 1-1 and performance review stuff. products like that already sell which is a good sign.
- samteeeee 5y ago
  An org focused version is now on the roadmap! Thank you.
- slantyyz 5y ago
  If I didn't have a solution in place already, I think I'd pay for it. $10 for the lifetime fee is far from egregious, imo.
yddev 5y ago
I've been doing this in a single long running document - think a single 200 page word document with <hr>'s everywhere - for many of the reasons you articulate in your landing page for the past 3-6 months. Things like "designed and created an algorithm to index the internet using c++" or "developed an online platform for selling books using php". My reminder is stepping into the transport tube home. I spend maybe 3 hours in 5-15 min blocks a month. I feel as though I'm your target customer in that it would give me better visibility of what I have recorded and more ready access to analysis of it. (here comes the but...) Please don't take this as a slight on your product or your work but somehow it feels too expensive for the quality difference between my current process and what you are offering. I couldn't give you feedback as to specifically why or what features would convert me to a paying customer just that I wouldn't purchase it or evidently sign up for the free account. At least one other person has signed up per comments here and yet I am comfortable with my enormously long horizontal rule separated... work blog diary? On a side note, I think a market exists for it and I applaud the effort in creating it - can you comment on your tech stack?
- samteeeee 5y ago
  No problem, thank you for the feedback and insight. The tech stack is very boring - I made this thing to solve a problem for myself, not to play with new tech :)
- halfdan 5y ago
  The pricing page lists the paid version as a one time payment of $10 and not a subscription. Price seems fine to me if you end up getting any value out of it.
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
ram_rar 5y ago
In the spirit of this concept, I think the most value you would get is by associating this with jira/slack and other workplace tools where employees can use these as way to justify raise/promotion/impact. Just as a standalone app, it doesn't add anymore value than recording this in notion/gdoc or any note taking tool.
- samteeeee 5y ago
  Good point, and nice idea about workplace tool integration. I'll look into that. Thanks
BossingAround 5y ago
I don't know, I like it. I think it'll be incredibly tough to sell because you're competing with text editors, which esp. engineers use on a daily basis... When I think about it, things like: - Organizing text (e.g. source files) - Ordering text (e.g. based on dates) - Syncing text to a backup (e.g. gdrive) - Setting up a reminder (e.g. crontab) All of the above are kind of core competencies of a lot of engineers. So I think it has to do more, such as drag-and-drop images like Evernote, integrate with Jira/Slack, integrate with Anki (for whatever reason), I don't know... I like the idea, but personally, I wouldn't buy it because I can do all of the above myself with literally minimal effort. I hope you can make it a more compelling offer. Looks great to me though, I wish you all the success! Note that maybe the solution is to target different users than engineers. Students wouldn't care about Jira/Slack integration, for example. Then again, students wouldn't pay for this, they get their stuff for free from Microsoft.
- samteeeee 5y ago
  I agree. I built it to solve a problem for myself. Having it be a standalone app actually helps me to remember to record my accomplishments, rather than a GDoc which I easily forget about.
JimWestergren 5y ago
Props for the pricing model. I recommend enabling accomplishments.app/username listing the accomplishments publicly for those that enable that. Vanity is a powerful pull.
- samteeeee 5y ago
  Added this to the roadmap - great idea. Thanks!
- MattGaiser 5y ago
  Vanity or just personal marketing/easily sending to other people. Like your boss that you want to try and extract money from.
sdrothrock 5y ago
I see a lot of engineers here saying this is redundant and wonder if you might not be targeting the right audience. Parents with kids, students, people trying to form better habits, people with depression all seem like they could use this kind of tool.
prepend 5y ago
I noticed one benefit is to help “beat imposter syndrome.” This is certainly very real, I feel it quite a bit, I recognize references to this more frequently. And they all tend to assume that imposter syndrome means that people are truly capable. This is an interesting assumption as true imposters also feel like imposters. I don’t mean con people, they are quite brazen. I mean incompetent people also feel like imposters. I suppose it’s nice to help false imposters overcome their anxieties. But I’d like to see data on false vs true. Assuming that true imposters are false can lead to just lots of noise about BS accomplishments. I had an employee who would laundry list accomplishments during their annual reviews and it was hard to distinguish true accomplishments vs things like going to a meeting (listed many times) or preparing meeting minutes (listed many times). That employee was challenging and more so because they ascribed to a philosophy of “celebrating all accomplishments.” It was like having unbirthday parties with people not as much fun as the Mad Hatter.
- DarylZero 5y ago
  I have reverse imposter syndrome, where I don't think I'm an imposter, but other people do.
- thedufer 5y ago
  > they all tend to assume that imposter syndrome means that people are truly capable. Isn't that just what impostor syndrome means? It's not a syndrome to correctly identify yourself as an impostor. That's just "being an impostor".
- throwaway984393 5y ago
  It's funny how the cargo cult hides groupthink. Particularly the psychology of impostor syndrome. It's not just insecurity, it's got an underlying cause. The person affected realizes a truth: that there's a body of knowledge they lack, or they aren't accomplishing much but are still getting approval from their boss. Thats not some kind of "false impostor feeling", that's literally becoming aware of a truth about oneself, followed by fear of consequence. When peers say "that's just impostor syndrome, don't worry about it!" they're reinforcing a groupthink that we should ignore the truth. The truth is that we often do excel despite our own shortcomings - but those shortcomings are real. We shouldn't hand-wave them away just to feel better, we should be focusing on improving ourselves.
lkxijlewlf 5y ago
I like this idea and I've been doing it most of my career (I keep a work journal). But... It is only half the equation. If your manager isn't doing same, they suck at their job and you should leave. Your manager should keep a file on every single one of their reports that details that report's accomplishments, fails, training, wants, likes, dislikes, etc. They get this info from talking to everyone - constantly. When review time comes, there should be no surprises. If you walk into the room for you review (or call or whatever), and you don't have a strong idea what your rating is, your manager sucks and you should leave [0]. There should never be surprises during reviews. You should never have to remind them of your accomplishments - though you should be prepared to. A manager's job is to manage. If they're not doing the above, they suck and they're not doing their job and you should leave. [0] Or you suck and can't pick up on what their trying to tell you, but that's another rant.
- typeofhuman 5y ago
  Harsh
  - lkxijlewlf 5y ago
    No, it really isn't. It is the very minimum of what a good manager should be doing. A good manager once drilled all this into me.
- slantyyz 5y ago
  While I agree with you in principle, at some point, you're going to run out of places to work at. Even the managers who I considered to be good at their jobs didn't record this stuff.
wiliaonson 5y ago
I wonder what the special feature that will use this one instead of other journal or notepad apps is?
joe8756438 5y ago
This is super cool. I built a product that accomplishes a similar function: record notes via sms or email input, play them back via email[0]. I originally thought this would be useful for every todo. Once done, it would be put on the list of "done" accomplishments. But, accomplishments of too fine a granularity are not really motivating anymore. I'm interested in trying to zoom out and see what it's like to receive a summary of "accomplishments" instead of "tasks." Nice work! [0] https://www.tatatap.com https://www.tatatap.com
_8j50 5y ago
It's performance review season and I struggle with this. I don't organize what I do in terms of accomplishments, it's all always small steps part of a larger vision so I have to spend a lot of time trying to figure out what counts as an accomplishment. If I fix something big or get something done, I just move to the next thing, perhaps an app like this can help me document that if I am not too lazy to use it.
- acemarke 5y ago
  I've been keeping a daily work journal since 2013 [0]. Just some daily notes in Markdown files about what I worked on, who I talked to, problems solved, stuff to remember, what I should pick up with tomorrow. (Currently just using VS Code with the Foam extension, configured to create a YYYY-MM-DD file as a command.) It's great for helping me look up "what was that fix I did a couple years ago?", but it's also invaluable come perf review season. I go through literally every day's notes for the last year, summarize each day into a bullet, then re-summarize into higher-level tasks and accomplishments. [0] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/09/coding-career-advice-daily-work-journal/ https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/09/coding-career-advi...

72 points by samteeeee 5y ago

I have a paper journal on my desk. Keeps me focused. Apps distract / disrupt flow too much for me.

There will be lots of users who don't have the same workflow as a developer opening vim all day. People who spend their lives in meetings probably need the reminders. I like the idea and it's a super simple execution. PS. There's a typo in the html <title>.

nkko 5y ago

This is great. You should consider team version where everyone shares their accomplishements and you could have a joint team accomplishements table (manager or individuals could tag some of them appropriately). I would implement this with my team immidiately.

samteeeee 5y ago
This idea is now on the roadmap, thank you!
samteeeee 5y ago
How much per month would you be willing to pay for a team version?

sidcool 5y ago

Feature request. Enable saving with Cmd + Enter :) Also key board navigation.

samteeeee 5y ago
Added to roadmap, thanks!

quantumOctopus 5y ago

I like the spirit of this app but I invite every manager to encourage their team to do this already. Every time I have a 1:1 I push my team to stop and think about what they accomplished in their last week of work. I have a simple template in a shared doc where I have them celebrate their accomplishment every single week. I cheer for them and surprisingly many people are not used to take a step back and think about what they were great at. Hopefully this app will help more!

gurjeet 5y ago
Beware, though. Praise and celebrate genuine accomplishments, otherwise after a few occurrences, the people would just be turned off by it. Overdoing it can do more harm than good.

avmich 5y ago

Don't record your accomplishments. Be humble. Make good deeds as the way of life, don't record your highs - if they are memorable, you'll remember, and will be able to tell later, and if they are not, they aren't worth it. Take example from high achievers - did Einstein, or Feynman, or Dostoevsky recorded carefully their accomplishments? Should those who are more modest achievers - perhaps - record them? /s

csdvrx 5y ago
> Don't record your accomplishments. Be humble. This! Also, do it like backups the Linus way: let other record them for you :)

thereticent 5y ago

On one hand it reminds me of todone, but I like that it's weekly and focused on work and performance evaluations. I signed up for Pro. I think you may want to make a "pay what you want" option with $10 as the threshold for Pro features. I would have paid more, especially as it's a one-time payment. One note for you: the title of the pages on mobile are "Accoumplishment App" rather than "Accomplishments App." Probably an html title tag to edit.

samteeeee 5y ago
Thank you

ggoo 5y ago

A less work-centric and more personal-life-centric version of this is a gratitude journal. I started doing mine some years back and, much to my surprise, it does actually work. https://ggia.berkeley.edu/practice/gratitude_journal https://ggia.berkeley.edu/practice/gratitude_journal

arikr 5y ago

OP, what template or site builder or CSS packages did you use for the design? Or was it a custom design by you?

samteeeee 5y ago
Inspired by: https://cruip.com/demos/open-pro/ https://cruip.com/demos/open-pro/
Brajeshwar 5y ago
Not OP. A Bootstrap Theme.
- arikr 5y ago
  Thanks

smcameron 5y ago

This is insane. You do not need an app for this. Just create a text file with vi(m). Type ":r !date" to get the date, then type in what you did at the top of the file. Then ":wq" to save and quit. That's it. I've done this for decades and it's perfect. An app? Are you insane? As if an app is going to last for more than 5 minutes.

programmarchy 5y ago
Yeah I’m sure that a janky text file will really impress a manager. Seriously, there’s something to be said for design.
- wyclif 5y ago
  How many times are you going to send that file to a hiring manager? I'm guessing you probably would either 1/ Format it when it's interview time, or 2/ Format and bullet point the key takeaways. Either way, the overhead is mostly recording it, not processing it which shouldn't happen very often.
  - programmarchy 5y ago
    Paying $10 to not have to format something even once is a good deal, especially if I can just send out a link.
quickthrower2 5y ago
This is the “Dropbox is just rsync” comment
- andretti1977 5y ago
  I was thinking exactly the same thing :D
  - leovander 5y ago
    If you haven't tried it, obsidian.md[0] has been killing it. You get to write your files in markdown and you can sync with git if you would like or toss it into your favorite share drive. I believe there is a built in daily tasks/note that you can trigger and there is a plugin that shows the daily notes you took on a calendar, to quickly check if you made one a certain day. The only caveat I will give is, is that you can do so much with it with the stock options and its graph and throw in the plugins you can get within the app, you can easily spend so much time trying to perfect everything. I got burnt out with notion really fast since most of the community at least on reddit gravitates to showing off what your landing page looks like. [0] https://obsidian.md/ https://obsidian.md/

quickthrower2 5y ago

Nice app idea. I set up a slack reminder to do the same, so there is a need and a problem to be solved. I wouldn’t pay for this but something to think about is an organisation might because they should want to know what their staff have achieved. Otherwise all they have to go on is completed tasks - which we all know isn’t everything. There is value in gap fillers. A org focused product would be great especially if it was rounded with 1-1 and performance review stuff. products like that already sell which is a good sign.

samteeeee 5y ago
An org focused version is now on the roadmap! Thank you.
slantyyz 5y ago
If I didn't have a solution in place already, I think I'd pay for it. $10 for the lifetime fee is far from egregious, imo.

yddev 5y ago

I've been doing this in a single long running document - think a single 200 page word document with <hr>'s everywhere - for many of the reasons you articulate in your landing page for the past 3-6 months. Things like "designed and created an algorithm to index the internet using c++" or "developed an online platform for selling books using php". My reminder is stepping into the transport tube home. I spend maybe 3 hours in 5-15 min blocks a month. I feel as though I'm your target customer in that it would give me better visibility of what I have recorded and more ready access to analysis of it. (here comes the but...) Please don't take this as a slight on your product or your work but somehow it feels too expensive for the quality difference between my current process and what you are offering. I couldn't give you feedback as to specifically why or what features would convert me to a paying customer just that I wouldn't purchase it or evidently sign up for the free account. At least one other person has signed up per comments here and yet I am comfortable with my enormously long horizontal rule separated... work blog diary? On a side note, I think a market exists for it and I applaud the effort in creating it - can you comment on your tech stack?

samteeeee 5y ago
No problem, thank you for the feedback and insight. The tech stack is very boring - I made this thing to solve a problem for myself, not to play with new tech :)
halfdan 5y ago
The pricing page lists the paid version as a one time payment of $10 and not a subscription. Price seems fine to me if you end up getting any value out of it.
deleted 5y ago
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ram_rar 5y ago

In the spirit of this concept, I think the most value you would get is by associating this with jira/slack and other workplace tools where employees can use these as way to justify raise/promotion/impact. Just as a standalone app, it doesn't add anymore value than recording this in notion/gdoc or any note taking tool.

samteeeee 5y ago
Good point, and nice idea about workplace tool integration. I'll look into that. Thanks

BossingAround 5y ago

I don't know, I like it. I think it'll be incredibly tough to sell because you're competing with text editors, which esp. engineers use on a daily basis... When I think about it, things like: - Organizing text (e.g. source files) - Ordering text (e.g. based on dates) - Syncing text to a backup (e.g. gdrive) - Setting up a reminder (e.g. crontab) All of the above are kind of core competencies of a lot of engineers. So I think it has to do more, such as drag-and-drop images like Evernote, integrate with Jira/Slack, integrate with Anki (for whatever reason), I don't know... I like the idea, but personally, I wouldn't buy it because I can do all of the above myself with literally minimal effort. I hope you can make it a more compelling offer. Looks great to me though, I wish you all the success! Note that maybe the solution is to target different users than engineers. Students wouldn't care about Jira/Slack integration, for example. Then again, students wouldn't pay for this, they get their stuff for free from Microsoft.

samteeeee 5y ago
I agree. I built it to solve a problem for myself. Having it be a standalone app actually helps me to remember to record my accomplishments, rather than a GDoc which I easily forget about.

JimWestergren 5y ago

Props for the pricing model. I recommend enabling accomplishments.app/username listing the accomplishments publicly for those that enable that. Vanity is a powerful pull.

samteeeee 5y ago
Added this to the roadmap - great idea. Thanks!
MattGaiser 5y ago
Vanity or just personal marketing/easily sending to other people. Like your boss that you want to try and extract money from.

sdrothrock 5y ago

I see a lot of engineers here saying this is redundant and wonder if you might not be targeting the right audience. Parents with kids, students, people trying to form better habits, people with depression all seem like they could use this kind of tool.

prepend 5y ago

I noticed one benefit is to help “beat imposter syndrome.” This is certainly very real, I feel it quite a bit, I recognize references to this more frequently. And they all tend to assume that imposter syndrome means that people are truly capable. This is an interesting assumption as true imposters also feel like imposters. I don’t mean con people, they are quite brazen. I mean incompetent people also feel like imposters. I suppose it’s nice to help false imposters overcome their anxieties. But I’d like to see data on false vs true. Assuming that true imposters are false can lead to just lots of noise about BS accomplishments. I had an employee who would laundry list accomplishments during their annual reviews and it was hard to distinguish true accomplishments vs things like going to a meeting (listed many times) or preparing meeting minutes (listed many times). That employee was challenging and more so because they ascribed to a philosophy of “celebrating all accomplishments.” It was like having unbirthday parties with people not as much fun as the Mad Hatter.

DarylZero 5y ago
I have reverse imposter syndrome, where I don't think I'm an imposter, but other people do.
thedufer 5y ago
> they all tend to assume that imposter syndrome means that people are truly capable. Isn't that just what impostor syndrome means? It's not a syndrome to correctly identify yourself as an impostor. That's just "being an impostor".
throwaway984393 5y ago
It's funny how the cargo cult hides groupthink. Particularly the psychology of impostor syndrome. It's not just insecurity, it's got an underlying cause. The person affected realizes a truth: that there's a body of knowledge they lack, or they aren't accomplishing much but are still getting approval from their boss. Thats not some kind of "false impostor feeling", that's literally becoming aware of a truth about oneself, followed by fear of consequence. When peers say "that's just impostor syndrome, don't worry about it!" they're reinforcing a groupthink that we should ignore the truth. The truth is that we often do excel despite our own shortcomings - but those shortcomings are real. We shouldn't hand-wave them away just to feel better, we should be focusing on improving ourselves.

lkxijlewlf 5y ago

I like this idea and I've been doing it most of my career (I keep a work journal). But... It is only half the equation. If your manager isn't doing same, they suck at their job and you should leave. Your manager should keep a file on every single one of their reports that details that report's accomplishments, fails, training, wants, likes, dislikes, etc. They get this info from talking to everyone - constantly. When review time comes, there should be no surprises. If you walk into the room for you review (or call or whatever), and you don't have a strong idea what your rating is, your manager sucks and you should leave [0]. There should never be surprises during reviews. You should never have to remind them of your accomplishments - though you should be prepared to. A manager's job is to manage. If they're not doing the above, they suck and they're not doing their job and you should leave. [0] Or you suck and can't pick up on what their trying to tell you, but that's another rant.

typeofhuman 5y ago
Harsh
- lkxijlewlf 5y ago
  No, it really isn't. It is the very minimum of what a good manager should be doing. A good manager once drilled all this into me.
slantyyz 5y ago
While I agree with you in principle, at some point, you're going to run out of places to work at. Even the managers who I considered to be good at their jobs didn't record this stuff.

wiliaonson 5y ago

I wonder what the special feature that will use this one instead of other journal or notepad apps is?

joe8756438 5y ago

This is super cool. I built a product that accomplishes a similar function: record notes via sms or email input, play them back via email[0]. I originally thought this would be useful for every todo. Once done, it would be put on the list of "done" accomplishments. But, accomplishments of too fine a granularity are not really motivating anymore. I'm interested in trying to zoom out and see what it's like to receive a summary of "accomplishments" instead of "tasks." Nice work! [0] https://www.tatatap.com https://www.tatatap.com

_8j50 5y ago

It's performance review season and I struggle with this. I don't organize what I do in terms of accomplishments, it's all always small steps part of a larger vision so I have to spend a lot of time trying to figure out what counts as an accomplishment. If I fix something big or get something done, I just move to the next thing, perhaps an app like this can help me document that if I am not too lazy to use it.

acemarke 5y ago
I've been keeping a daily work journal since 2013 [0]. Just some daily notes in Markdown files about what I worked on, who I talked to, problems solved, stuff to remember, what I should pick up with tomorrow. (Currently just using VS Code with the Foam extension, configured to create a YYYY-MM-DD file as a command.) It's great for helping me look up "what was that fix I did a couple years ago?", but it's also invaluable come perf review season. I go through literally every day's notes for the last year, summarize each day into a bullet, then re-summarize into higher-level tasks and accomplishments. [0] https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/09/coding-career-advice-daily-work-journal/ https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/09/coding-career-advi...