How do you stay motivated and track your personal projects?
How do you guys stay motivated on your personal projects? How do you keep track of them?
Most of the tech teams at work have a project manager / scrum master etc. who would nudge you to get the work done. But this is not the case for personal projects.
Also, when you have more personal commitments, your project tends to get de-prioritised and even lost in the long list of chores you have to do.
Do you guys have a tool / software that you use to manage your personal projects / commitments? Or if there is a tool, would you be willing to pay for it?
My $0.02 -
Small project + single team member - Google Sheet
Small project + multiple team members - Trello
Large project + multiple team members - Codegiant.io
Large project + multiple team members + custom workflow - Jira
Shameless plug: you should try out my project (www.tribefive.me for reference).
Here's why: motivation is overrated. It comes and goes...you can't depend on it.
Instead, build up your discipline muscle. Make a commitment to sit down everyday and chip away at your project.
This sounds easy to do, but is actually really hard to put into practice. And that's why my project leverages accountability to help you build up more discipline.
Cheers!
Jonathan
Interesting app. I'd be interested to try it! may be this solves my problem :)
Hope it can help you out! In the meantime, focus on consistency. Make a commitment that NO MATTER WHAT, you will find at least 30 minutes to work on your project each day.
It won't be easy, and it won't be fun. But it'll be worth it when you zoom out and see how much more progress you can make that way =)
I personally using Trello and I know that most hackers are too. What the tool you talking about has to offer?
I was thinking of having a virtual scrum master (bot), that helps you put your ideas down, break them up to smaller tasks that lets you to keep track of the progress (everyone likes progress!). nudge you if you're not making progress in a particular project.