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Ask HN: How have you been tracking your work each week?

7 points by baetylus 4y ago

pabs3 4y ago
I blog monthly about the open source work that I do (see profile). I keep a draft blog post open and paste links into it as I go.
DanAtC 4y ago
https://timewarrior.net/ https://timewarrior.net/
DamonHD 4y ago
Do you mean timesheets (I do those for some stands of work) or writing-up (I maintain a 'blog' for a couple of other strands)?
radium3d 4y ago
I keep a google doc for the year and create a heading for each day where I write down a small sentence explaining each task along with the rough time (15 min increments or so) to be submitted by EOD and also track the time and write out detailed descriptions in our project management system (currently monday.com). Do not recommend. Minimum happiness levels will be quickly attained, and no one will ever look at all these notes more than once.
andrei_says_ 4y ago
Basecamp has a check-in feature where you can send a question to be participating people on a regular basis. I send “What did you work on today? what are you working on tomorrow?” Every day at 4:30pm. Not as a proof that we’re earning our keep but to keep track on all the unplanned stuff and to keep our eyes on the planned items.
- drakonka 4y ago
  We have a Slack bot that sends out this kind of message for us as well. For my team it's 17.00 local time. I also track everything I'd put into my update in Workflowy (and more, sometimes) throughout the day, so I end up with a bunch of daily logs to look back on if needed. I use it a lot, especially for our longer-form written "end-of-week" updates.
  - andrei_says_ 4y ago
    This is also useful when compiling a brag document for review time.
notemaker 4y ago
I use activitywatch: cross platform, free, locally hosted.
altilunium 4y ago
https://github.com/altilunium/reitnorF-timer-2.0 https://github.com/altilunium/reitnorF-timer-2.0
mejutoco 4y ago
I use Todoist https://todoist.com https://todoist.com
Marrand 4y ago
I selfhost TimeTagger on hetzner with nginx basic auth in front. For backups i copy the timetagger sqlite file to a Hetzner storage box once a day. No issues so far, can recommend.

7 points by baetylus 4y ago

I blog monthly about the open source work that I do (see profile). I keep a draft blog post open and paste links into it as I go.

DanAtC 4y ago

https://timewarrior.net/ https://timewarrior.net/

DamonHD 4y ago

Do you mean timesheets (I do those for some stands of work) or writing-up (I maintain a 'blog' for a couple of other strands)?

radium3d 4y ago

I keep a google doc for the year and create a heading for each day where I write down a small sentence explaining each task along with the rough time (15 min increments or so) to be submitted by EOD and also track the time and write out detailed descriptions in our project management system (currently monday.com). Do not recommend. Minimum happiness levels will be quickly attained, and no one will ever look at all these notes more than once.

andrei_says_ 4y ago

Basecamp has a check-in feature where you can send a question to be participating people on a regular basis. I send “What did you work on today? what are you working on tomorrow?” Every day at 4:30pm. Not as a proof that we’re earning our keep but to keep track on all the unplanned stuff and to keep our eyes on the planned items.

drakonka 4y ago
We have a Slack bot that sends out this kind of message for us as well. For my team it's 17.00 local time. I also track everything I'd put into my update in Workflowy (and more, sometimes) throughout the day, so I end up with a bunch of daily logs to look back on if needed. I use it a lot, especially for our longer-form written "end-of-week" updates.
- andrei_says_ 4y ago
  This is also useful when compiling a brag document for review time.

notemaker 4y ago

I use activitywatch: cross platform, free, locally hosted.

altilunium 4y ago

https://github.com/altilunium/reitnorF-timer-2.0 https://github.com/altilunium/reitnorF-timer-2.0

mejutoco 4y ago

I use Todoist https://todoist.com https://todoist.com

Marrand 4y ago

I selfhost TimeTagger on hetzner with nginx basic auth in front. For backups i copy the timetagger sqlite file to a Hetzner storage box once a day. No issues so far, can recommend.