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by smcameron 2294 days ago
For many years, I used to have a little html file I called "log.html" (just plain html) and at the end of every day before I left, I'd add a section at the top, dated, separated with a horizontal rule <hr>, with notes about what I did that day, and also little things I learned. When it came time to make my weekly status report, I'd refer back to it. I could also search through it and find various bits of information I'd written down. And if other people wondered what I'd been up to, they could look at it too.
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Yes. I do this. In Gdocs though, name is productivity, where I add the day in format [dd/mm/yyyy] followed by bullets points on things I thought and did during the day. It also helps me to wrap my mind around in the following weeks, like, what was I thinking? then I go back to the log, and remember the trail of thought leading to my decisions. It is quite worth a while doing this I reckon.
Keeping notes and referencing them as needed in periodic one-on-one meetings is very helpful.
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There’s a project called TiddlyWiki[0] Would work great for this.

[0] - https://tiddlywiki.com/