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ItsASine (Kayla)

Depends on what the purpose is. All of these relate to "work" in some way.

  • I have an Ink + Volt planner for tracking what needs done for the day. If too much goes in the planner, I highlight standup relevant entries.
  • I have a Confluence space for work to-dos. A page for finicky test cases and attempts to fix them, a page for long term improvements to the codebase, a page for just listing out the todos in one spot with a Complete and Not Complete section with dates of completion for yearly review season
  • I have Notion for current endeavors. Notion doc tracks things like todo blog posts so I have spellcheck and Grammarly and if I had any open job applications out, their weird in doc databases are great for that.
  • I have a Lamy notebook for my wip portfolio updates. I can sketch out the layout of the page, hastily write down copy when I think of it, play with content sections with lots of arrows, etc.
  • I have Trello for tracking long term achievements. It's based off the idea of a Hype Doc. Each card is something I've done, in swimlanes for categories, tagged with labels for the year. This then feeds into my resume/portfolio site/promotion requests.

I like to pretend that having a lot of productivity tools and workflows makes me productive.