I'm tired of reconstructing my workday every month
I work remotely, and the most annoying part of my job is filling out my work schedule.
Every month, I put it off until the last day. Then I have to reconstruct my workday using GitHub activity, messages, calendar entries, and whatever else I can find. The problem is that those sources only tell part of the story. They don't reflect the actual workflow or show how much time I spent on each task. In the end, I have to piece my day back together from scattered bits of information, and sometimes I even have to rely on memory.
The most frustrating part is that none of this is actual work.
I'm sure someone will say, "Why not just use ChatGPT or another AI?" Believe me, I've tried.
The problem isn't that AI writes bad reports. The problem is that I still have to explain the context, write a good prompt, ask it to break my day into tasks, estimate the time spent on each one, review the output, and finally copy everything into Google Calendar. One tedious process simply gets replaced with another.
For almost a year, I couldn't shake the feeling that this entire workflow could be much simpler. So I decided to build a tool that solves this problem for me first.
Before I spend months building it, I want to know one thing:
Is this a real problem for anyone else?
I put together a short demo showing how I imagine this workflow could work.
I'd genuinely appreciate your thoughts - not only on the idea itself, but also on what could make it genuinely useful.
How do you currently keep track of your work? What tools do you use? And what's the most frustrating part of your workflow?
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