Whichever the project manager set up for the team
Jira
Nothing worked for me until I designed my own planner. I like to take things one week at a time so every Friday afternoon, I print out enough sheets for the next week on semi-A4 paper, folded and stapled to a semi-A5 booklet.
One full page for each day with:
- Compact visual schedule of the day with a time grid (hours on the y-axis, 10s of minutes on the x-axis) and recurring events pre-printed
- “Today” box to write down reminders and tasks that don’t go on a time grid
- Section to jot down miscellaneous thoughts and ideas
- Right half of the page entirely for a journal entry
Front cover has the weekly overview and back cover has upcoming and assorted tasks.
No monthly calendar, any entry that needs to persist for longer than a week or so goes in a separate hardcover A5 journal that is usually in my bag.
My system is people asking me when stuff will be done
If you’re a terminal weirdo like me I’d recommend Taskwarrior
Pen and paper lol
Microsoft ToDo. It works well with the GTD method.
GTD?
People ask me to do shit and I do it… unless someone asks me to do something else before I’m done.
Todo.txt
And also
Calendar.txt
Calendar as plaintext is cursed.
A little notebook I carry around with me
This is me, boss comes in with a new task, I immediately whip out my green notebook and start writing as he’s talking then let him know I’ll get to it when I’m done with my current task. I use black for writing out the task and subtasks, red for checking items I’ve completed already, slashing through tasks that are no longer required, or writing notes that come up during the task (like ticket numbers). I think I’m like just below halfway through the notebook I started in February.
emacs org-mode
Jira and mails marked as unread until i have worked through them haha :)
That’s the fun part, I don’t!
(okay maybe a little bit of Jira)
TickTick
It’s what Wunderlist used to be like before Microsoft bought them and buggered it up, but keeps getting improvements.
I use jira software for task management! It’s just me on the team, so it’s maybe a bit overkill, but I’ve found scrum / sprints to be massively helpful in prioritizing important work.
It sucks jira is in the cloud, but I’m yet to find an open source scrum system with the same features. Taiga.io comes close, but i don’t yet have a reason to switch; i’ve been using Jira for two years with no issues.
