Huh. Coincidental similarities with my own work log that I've been keeping since 2007 are striking. Even down to using asterisks to mark done items (though I'

Huh. Coincidental similarities with my own work log that I've been keeping since 2007 are striking. Even down to using asterisks to mark done items (though I've since switched to the org-style '- [X]') and equal sign followed by a space and a date to start an entry, though my inspiration was actually POD (Perl's Plain Old Documentation format). My file(s) (it eventually felt too big and I split it up by year, which is also an opportunity to forget about the never-going-to-do items that tend to collect at the bottom) used to be specific to the job I started in 2007, but I ended up using it more and more for personal things, too. Individual projects might have their own TODO files, but my main 'what am I going to do today' keeps going in good old 2023-timelog.txt. Mine might look denser than John Carmack's but then I have a lot of things like - [X] Start the laundry - [X] Feed cats AGAIN omg - [X] Baby-proof the basement door - [X] $job: Figure out why `mvn spring-boot:run` doesn't f!&#ng work And honestly this kind of stuff feels like as much, if not more, work than if they were all tasks related to some pet software project.