I don't really keep a "digital journal" per se. But I do track all my work in a plain text file, for which I've developed a simple markdown-ish syntax that's bo

I don't really keep a "digital journal" per se. But I do track all my work in a plain text file, for which I've developed a simple markdown-ish syntax that's both human-redable and parsable by a small script I wrote. The script and parsing is really just to give me a time breakdown of each task (and link me to the JIRAs for them) so I can fill out my timesheet accurately at the end of the week without doing much math. (I.E. any tasks without time labels are assumed to divide evenly across an 8-hour workday, but each task, and the entire workday as a whole, can be labeled with different start/end/duration times and the parser maths out the divisions for me). So, kind of "one big text file", but with a small script to enhance that for timekeeping purposes. Not-so-fun related fact: About a month ago, I had hardware failure and needed to replace my work laptop. My script didn't get backed up, as it wasn't in one of the directories that I copied over before replacing the machine. So I rewrote it and... now there's a bug that screws up the time calculation if the day isn't 8 hours. Haven't figured out why... Gotta love automation!