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Discussion on: Do you keep a work journal?

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Tamara Temple • Edited

I use pen and paper journals for engineering notes, drawings, mind maps, discussion notes, etc. I'm not a bujo person, I don't have that many different things to keep track of like that.

With work, we have Jira to provide a macro task list.

I'm also deep into using Notion.so these days, and keep track of a lot of different things there, including scans of my journal pages. Spending time on Sunday evening in review, capturing important thoughts, notes, links, potential devblog articles, documentation updates , and rough plan for the coming week keeps stuff from getting too unmanageable and keeps all that hand-written stuff accessible.

Prior to using Notion, I was a heavy user of Emacs's org-mode for note capture. Keeping track of scanned journal pages was hit or miss, as well as keeping it organized.