Saving fish by writing code! Applications developer in fisheries, specializing in webapps and moving 'enterprise-y' legacy systems to modern agile systems - Email or tweet me if you want to talk!
I keep a pen and paper journal. I work in a bureaucratic context, so having a record of who told me to do what, when, is an important CYA tool. Digital records, with metadata, have their place, but a pen and paper log is private and portable. If something goes wrong, I want to have an independent record of what I heard, and who was telling it to me. Email partially answers this, but not completely.
I haven't found an electronic technique that works for me.
The journal also gives me a bonus of having something to pull accomplishments out of, when it is time for my semi-annual performance write up and review.
I solve the searchability problem by using the Bullet Journal technique. Each page is numbered, each entry has a heading and a date, and after I make an entry, I add the page number to the index at the beginning, under the appropriate entry.
I also keep a monthly calendar at the front of the journal, so I can plan out a bit in the future. I skip the future log; tried it, didn't see much of a point. My daily logs are typically more like "meeting" or "project" logs - notes and action items.
Something I started doing recently is keeping a weekly summary. Every Monday, I write up a new page with the days of the week separated by a couple lines. As the week goes by, I put a couple high level comments about what happened each day in my weekly summary.
Saving fish by writing code! Applications developer in fisheries, specializing in webapps and moving 'enterprise-y' legacy systems to modern agile systems - Email or tweet me if you want to talk!
Started learning to program seriously early 2017, cofounded a web company, did that for a bit and then life changed and we closed that down and I moved into Sr. Ops Mgmt and Project Mgmt.
My mom uses the bullet journaling. She loves it and swears by it. I couldn't get my head around it myself but i'm the kind of person who if I have an appointment i'll be there, otherwise i'd rather not schedule myself. I use todoist to keep myself organized.
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I keep a pen and paper journal. I work in a bureaucratic context, so having a record of who told me to do what, when, is an important CYA tool. Digital records, with metadata, have their place, but a pen and paper log is private and portable. If something goes wrong, I want to have an independent record of what I heard, and who was telling it to me. Email partially answers this, but not completely.
I haven't found an electronic technique that works for me.
The journal also gives me a bonus of having something to pull accomplishments out of, when it is time for my semi-annual performance write up and review.
I solve the searchability problem by using the Bullet Journal technique. Each page is numbered, each entry has a heading and a date, and after I make an entry, I add the page number to the index at the beginning, under the appropriate entry.
I also keep a monthly calendar at the front of the journal, so I can plan out a bit in the future. I skip the future log; tried it, didn't see much of a point. My daily logs are typically more like "meeting" or "project" logs - notes and action items.
Something I started doing recently is keeping a weekly summary. Every Monday, I write up a new page with the days of the week separated by a couple lines. As the week goes by, I put a couple high level comments about what happened each day in my weekly summary.
Thank you for sharing the Bullet Journal link! That is a great idea to keep an index and number pages. I'm definitely going to try that.
Took me a couple tries to get something I liked, but I really like it. There's a huge community around best practices and trying different things out.
My mom uses the bullet journaling. She loves it and swears by it. I couldn't get my head around it myself but i'm the kind of person who if I have an appointment i'll be there, otherwise i'd rather not schedule myself. I use todoist to keep myself organized.