Where the f**k did my time go?

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Valentin Sawadski (he/him)

Posted on September 26, 2019

Where the f**k did my time go?

If you're anything like me, this sounds familiar: On Friday evening you realize how much didn't get around to and wonder what kept you busy all week πŸ™‹β€β™€οΈπŸ™‹β€β™‚οΈ

To track and understand my work better I thought about retracing my steps in git, Email, Jira etc. Each git commit has a timestamp, each email too, and calendars show me which meetings I've been in. When you bring Jira into the picture it should even show you how much meetings and other distractions affect your story points.

I've built a quick prototype to show me a charts for different tasks based on my Calendar entries (meetings, focus time, learning time etc.) and first results are quite surprising! (Programming is a side activity and not my main job if you believe my calendar ;-))

What do you guys think would something like this work for you? Have you tried something like this already?

P.S. My prototype is not yet on GitHub. But if you're interested let me know and I can let you into the private beta :-)

πŸ’– πŸ’ͺ πŸ™… 🚩
vsaw
Valentin Sawadski (he/him)

Posted on September 26, 2019

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