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Ask HN: Anybody know of a todo list that can create reports of what you did?

11 pointsTierbob11 comments

I'd love to find a todo list manager that can tell me the projects I worked on even if I only touched a subtask of that project. Then I can use it in our daily standup.

Any ideas?

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I'd suggest the following as options to check:

* Weekdone - http://weekdone.com * Todoist w/ IFTTT to Google Sheets workflow - http://todoist.com & http://ifttt.com * JIRA - http://jira.com * IDoneThis - http://idonethis.com * Basecamp - http://basecamp.com

It's way overkill probably but JIRA has a JQL language that allows you easily apply filters to your Kanban board which I use every day to know what to bring up in my standup. I just have a "recently updated" filter that looks at all user stories/bugs/sub tasks and shows them to me. Again JIRA is a heavy tool if all you want is "todo list" but it's the best product management tool I've come across and for < 10 users it's only $10/yr if you host it yourself.

It also has a number of agile features via the official "JIRA Agile" plugin.

JIRA is excellent; however, I hate Java. It's definitely a bit heavy in terms of what you may be looking for in this case. However, it's a phenomenal and supremely powerful product.

I used kanbanflow[1] it is trello like project management tool with built-in support of pomodoro [2]. For reporting, it has a pretty basic use case available on free account but should be good enough for your purpose.

[1] https://kanbanflow.com [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique

Check out Emacs Org-mode. The learning curve is a bit steep, but it allows you to create task hierarchies, dependencies, Gantt charts, check in to tasks, create reports, schedule, etc. It's all in plan text, open source, and has a lively community.

Good responses; I'm glad to see todo lists have evolved since the old pocket-PC days. They used to all discard checked items, leaving you wondering what you did all day. Its an obvious good move to record accomplishment and give feedback on it!

I use Todoist for a simple mobile solution and link it to a spreadsheet with IFTTT.

I also use this system based on Todoists @tagging system. Great option for the reasonable cost of Todoist per year.

You can use Asana and simply export into excel about what you have done. I used Asana alot and also kanban board. I combine both and receive maximum potential of my life

right now I just use a simple markdown text file that I track in a private git repo, one per person. They get updated weekly, then I have a cron process that runs every monday and generated a weekly html report for the prior week. It makes it easy to view and you can print to pdf etc

forgot to mention this link I found the other day, using git hooks to keep track of your work in a timesheet http://mike-solomon.com/timesheet-githook

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