For long time my daily work was not organised, and I saw some recurrent problems with that.

1. I easily forgot what I did few days back.

2. Though I learnt things I did not internalise them well so I could share or talk about it with rest of the team

3. Did not have opportunity list to improve the product or process in long term (though I thought about few things here and there)

4. Often did not have topics for my bi weekly 1 to 1

5. Did not have points to add in bi-monthly retro for what to improve (though I saw few pain points these are not written down in structured way)

To fix this I now organise my work by writing small notes and taking some time out after each chunk of work to write something down about it.

So there is log of my daily deep work sessions also I write notes on them before ending my work day. This helps to disconnect from work and start next day from the state I left.

I keep a log of my learnings on tech/domain/process etc, and try to formulate it well so I can share them with the team in our weekly team sync ( we dont have daily standup, we meet once a week to share our learnings)

If I come across pain point with something I write it down and possible solution for it, this I take it my bi-weekly 1 to 1 with my manager. This has lead to good outcome of solving some issues.

Also this helped me to build my own brag doc of my achivements.

Habit of being organized by writing down things is a super power which can be built. As keeping multiple notes across feels hard so I built a web application for myself. I will soon publish it once I polish a bit so anyone else also struggling with organizing their work can give a try.