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How do you organize miscellaneous tasks?
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We're already committed to using GitLab, so I'm asking devs who use similar tools how they organize tasks.
Oh, and for myself: A markdown file, where I have a custom syntax to track what I need to do, what I'm done with, working on, etc.
I separate each day with a
== yyyy-mm-dd
(the==
is literal, the letters are replaced by an iso8601 formatted date.Then I have a symbol at the start of each line, indicating what's what. Here's an example
This format is somewhat copied and personalized from John Carmack's .plan files. His format was based on the ye olde
finger
command for Unix operating systems, but I'm on Windows, so I just made my own format that made sense to me.In the long run, I'll have one super long log file of what I did when. It's nice to see myself evolve and grow.