How are you tracking daily tasks?
Hey everybody,
This is my first post, so kindly let me know if there's something that the community expects/does that I've missed. Anyway, I've been working on small projects (typically a week or two) for a while now. I've decided I want to tackle larger projects.
To track daily tasks, I just used my notebook and made a checklist. I didn't have hard deadlines on me for any of them, so if something took longer, it just did, and stuff finished a day or two late.
I'm working on tackling bigger projects now. I'm aiming for 3-6 months. I want to find a more modern way of tracking my progress. I know about Miro, Trello, Jira, Airtable, etc. I'm looking for a tool that ideally has macro to micro and can easily create daily tasks. I'm hoping to be able to look at a gantt chart or something of that nature as well as a daily checklist. And something fast and responsive.
Would love insight on what fellow indie devs use for their task/project management and, in particular, how they use it day-to-day as well as sprint-to-sprint.
Thanks!!
Welcome,
You can create your own workflow these days, thanks to apps like Notion. After using almost all of them I came to this conclusion that these tools make my workflow more complex, so I created a very streamlined framework for myself. Anyway, if you want to take advantage of online tools, moday.com provides a gantt chart view which is nice, and Notion is strongly recommended because of freedom it gives you.
@mikeslaats also has a video about a simple but effective framework, worth watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHesjagALwQ
Good luck,
Thank you for the suggestions! The internet is so diluted with ideas on workflow that it's easy to get inundated and get lost in it (and I have many times). I'll take a look at the ones you mentioned and probably create my own workflow as well. Thanks again!:)
Currently using Asana. I was using Notion, and Todoist before but realised that I spend more time on customizing and beautifying than doing actual productive work so I stopped and shifted to Asana.
I use the “big ass text file” method.
Once a month or so, I add a bunch of hyphens and copy what I still see as a priority up to the top (where I continue adding stuff). The text file just grows over the months and years, but it’s text so it’s still small and lightning fast to search.
Sticky notes on a whiteboard.
I use databases in Notion to track my projects. Here's an intro video on how Notion databases work, but tl;dr: they make it easy to create projects/tasks, and to visualize these workflows as calendars, gantt charts, kanban boards, or simple lists.
I use Todoist for all my tasks. Works great and has a lot of handy features!