9 Years of Copious Notes
Nine years of work notes, from sort-of-daily Markdown files in 2017 to monthly Word docs to a single yearly running document, and how AI agents finally took over the writing through worklogs.
Tag: workflow
Posts connected by the workflow tag.
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Context Hunting vs Context Gathering
Why the word 'hunting' matters: context doesn't just lie around waiting to be picked up. Real context requires active investigation, tracing code, chasing state transitions, and turning what you found into something the whole team can use.
Stop Conflating Effort Tracking with Work Tracking
Why effort tracking (where is my time going?) needs to be separate from work tracking (what am I building?) and how centralizing effort in one tool provides visibility that scattered work-tracking systems can't.
Why I Switched to Worklogs (and You Should Too)
How worklogs transformed my workflow with AI coding agents (capturing context across sessions, using GitHub Issues as a backend, and turning structured logs into an agentic work queue).