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Use @RoamResearch for my work notes / journal / daily log / etc.
I basically log everything in there.
* Meeting notes / one on one notes
* I'll copy/paste stuff from slack into there all the time
* How I'm feeling that day
* Trains of thought
* Notes for feedback https://twitter.com/ScribblingOn/status/1321436714502598657
I basically log everything in there.
* Meeting notes / one on one notes
* I'll copy/paste stuff from slack into there all the time
* How I'm feeling that day
* Trains of thought
* Notes for feedback https://twitter.com/ScribblingOn/status/1321436714502598657
An example of how I use it as a daily log - this is slimmed down from an empty database, but:
For work stuff, I find being able to chunk things by quarter / week to be useful.
"What notes do I have about X from 2020wk33" - really easy to find/filter down on that stuff.
For work stuff, I find being able to chunk things by quarter / week to be useful.
"What notes do I have about X from 2020wk33" - really easy to find/filter down on that stuff.
For awhile, I was feeling like my meeting game was off.
So I started to track
* how I was feeling going into it
* how do I feel it went
* how could I improve it
I'd start to notice trends over time, keywords like Rushed, Unprepared, Anxious, etc would crop up
So I started to track
* how I was feeling going into it
* how do I feel it went
* how could I improve it
I'd start to notice trends over time, keywords like Rushed, Unprepared, Anxious, etc would crop up
I've tweaked the prompts/etc a bit - but it's a useful in-place "work reflection tool", that also lives along the side the notes from the actual meeting.
I'd then start blocking out more time to prepare for meetings, etc - and track a bit of how that improved over time.
I'd then start blocking out more time to prepare for meetings, etc - and track a bit of how that improved over time.
and when I got some feedback recently that I've been having some more effective meetings recently,
- logged the feedback
- could also trace it back to when I started to do a bit of the pre/post-meeting check-ins
- see what was working or not, etc
- logged the feedback
- could also trace it back to when I started to do a bit of the pre/post-meeting check-ins
- see what was working or not, etc
I usually also have a [[Daily Shutdown]] section - where I just kind of brain-dump what is top of my mind at the end of the day, at times its a bit of planning, a bit of reflecting - but also just trying to clear headspace at the end of the day.
When preparing for feedback - I could quickly find notes that I have written about people, and then also link it back to a page I have on our engineering level rubric, and questions we have in the performance review.
Also, keep notes on myself, so when it's time to do my own self-review - most of it is already written, it's a matter of going back and summarizing instead of trying to rely on memory alone.
Being able to tag / filter / query / etc so easily - finding information is pretty fast
Being able to tag / filter / query / etc so easily - finding information is pretty fast
It also helps keep a sense of the overall growth, so when providing feedback for others, it's not just influenced by the most recent interactions - but being able to see the growth over time, connect it easily to specific meetings/notes/interactions is really handy
and when you can copy links to threads in slack/etc - can be helpful to jump back to that point in slack easily, so even as my "slack thread finder" is one of the ways I use it.
