I decided to draw up a sample page for my favorite pens
You can never have enough pens
08 Friday Feb 2019
Posted art and paper
inI decided to draw up a sample page for my favorite pens
You can never have enough pens
01 Friday Feb 2019
Posted art and paper, rants
inAnother project I have astonishingly few pictures of is my office work log.
I’ve bought calendars big enough to make notes in the past two years, first a back-to-school coloring-book calendar that was really nice, and then Sarah’s Scribbles calendar. But when that ran out, I thought, I like simple tasks and the BuJo concept is nice, why don’t I just… draw my own.
That M is really a W stamp, and the rest I drew free hand to sort of immitate the style. I had this thought that I’d color them in every time I reached them, but it’s sort of underlined how very not-any-time-at-all I have, that I never got around to it.
I don’t seem to have any picture of the weeks, but they’re really just three days on the left page, and two weekdays and the weekend splitting one field on the right.
At the end of every month I create a “month summary” page right before the next month’s splash screen. Then at the end of every month I take the time to summarize anything relevant that’s happened during the month. This I then refer back to on yearly reviews. Which I really need because no one seems to understand my work, and they all seem lightheaded at review time about how much I really do. (can you both be underpaid and have a competitively high salary at the same time?)
So every day, I roughly write down my tasks. The ideal for a developer is to have one entry every day that is roughly the same. “Feature name: subtask”.
I have about eight completely disparate entries every day, on a normal day.
It’s started to calm down, at least it calmed down right before vacation.
This may be why I have high blood pressure.
Another benefit of the work log is that those days when you feel like you haven’t done anything for months, you can look at the monthly summary and see that “oh yeah, I did everything“.