The thing is: I'm endlessly tired of "meetings" myself. I don't like conducting them, don't enjoy listening to all the nonsense unrelated to me, and struggle to recall their outcomes after some time. What's worse is that the timing of these meetings isn't always personally convenient for me. I don't want to step out of the "flow," switch gears, and so on. In general, daily/syncs/stand-ups in your Slack/Google Meet are a total mess (in most cases).
And what can be done about it? About a year and a half ago, I tried dailies in a text format. The essence is as follows: at a designated time, someone in the group chat sends a "daily message," and colleagues share how things are going in the thread. You won't believe it, but it works and works great. Now I can respond at a convenient time, gather my thoughts, analyze and remember all the work done during the day. It's already productive. But I'm a programmer, and that means automating such a routine. No problem! I wrote a simple script that sends this system message at a designated time. Even better, right? And no magic, everything is straightforward. But something is missing... Searching the chat after a month or two becomes inconvenient, so everything needs to be logged in a unified history and categorized by dates. No problem, now the script sends all replies to a special page in Notion.
It turned out to be an extremely useful automation: truly productive dailies at a convenient time + keeping a history of replies that you can refer to and analyze the work done, problems, and difficulties the team faced. And this amazing experience, I implemented it with my colleagues as a test bot DailyLog (currently in testing, only for Telegram). Give it a try, test it out, evaluate this format of daily meetings, and share your experience with me @itnigilist or in the comments under this post.
๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ Important: tell your friends, colleagues about it. I'm sure many will be happy to reconsider the classic format and increase their productivity!
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