Ask HN: What do you use to track your tasks and accomplishments at work?
I like low tech, but I also like agility.<p>Every morning I write a list of 5 things I want to accomplish in an index card. Any appointments I have are also written down. This allows me to easily figure out what I need to and what I have to do.<p>5 is a good number of tasks for me as long as some tasks take 30 minutes or less. This is not only work tasks, but life tasks as well, it&#x27;s kind of what I feel I need to accomplish today.<p>Then I have a day.md file open for work. I prefer markdown because it&#x27;s easy to render anywhere, email, wiki pages, gitlab etc. My day.md is a single file that expands for a year. Each year I start a new one.<p>day.md has all my meeting notes and all work projects worked on. The reason why I prefer an electronic document for this is speed. It&#x27;s fast to write things in, it&#x27;s a single place so I don&#x27;t have to figure out where I put my notes or whatever. Most importantly being a file I can search for things, re-arrange projects, current project being worked on is always on top.<p>This helps with my planning as well. I feel that a lot of times as a dev we tend to get overwhelmed with all the things we have to do to solve a project. So I break things down, usually it starts abstract and as I get a better understanding it becomes more in depth.<p>My index card gets ripped up at the end of the day. It makes me feel good for completing all the tasks on it. :)