WorkHack: How to Keep a Weightless Diary
Readers of Jobacle.com and listeners of the Working Podcast know that we are big fans of maintaining a work diary. It's a great way to analyze your emotions and get clarity on situations you are in. It will also come in VERY handy when it comes time to state your case for a promotion or raise.
Most of us don't remember what happened yesterday, let alone a few months ago.
A new Website, Memiary, hopes to jog your memory. The dot com lets you keep a private online diary. What makes the product unique is that it forces the user to be succinct; allowing you to identify up to five things that you do not want to forget.
While the product can be used for any type of feeling, we recommend setting up an account and using it exclusively for work-related issues. Log your accomplishments, setbacks, emotions, and so on. Here's an idea of what a daily entry looks like.
Keeping a log will let you spot trends and quickly identify potential problems. You'll thank us later for the advice, trust me.
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Users have given us feedback on how they are using it, and a majority of the uses have been work-related. For example, an investor uses it to track his investments and note down what he bought and sold particular stocks at. Another entrepreneur catalogs his meetings and thoughts, so he can know who he spoke to and what he was thinking on a particular day. A teacher who was previously advised by her psychiatrist to keep a daily diary of all the good things that to her throughout her day now uses it for that very purpose.
I think it does the job of an exceptional work-cataloging tool, although I guess I am a little biased. ;-)