[criddell]

Earlier this year I experimented with writing a work log each day. Every time I finished a task or I reached the end of the workday, I would make some notes. After a few months I stopped.

Occasionally I found it very useful for reloading context on a Monday morning. Other than that it seemed like just another job I had given myself. Going back and rereading my notes from that time I see that I didn't put down enough information. Most of them don't make much sense to me today.

I kept my log in OneNote and created a shortcut that I could click on to jump to that page. It worked great and for me, it's important to include images and handwriting along with text and it all be searchable.

A personal log like the article's author wrote about is much more appealing to me and I think it would be far more useful. Jerry Pournelle used to talk about his log when he was on Leo Laporte's podcast and I've often wished I had the discipline to maintain something like that.