Re:Ask HN: What do you use to keep track of a backlog on sol...
by jmstfv on Monday October 28, 2019 @03:12PM
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For short-term items, I use pen and paper.
For long-term ones, I use TODO notes scattered around my Rails codebase. I have segmented those items into 3 categories: high, medium, and low. Whenever I create a new TODO note, I append one of those categories to it (e.g. TODO[low]).
Rails has a built-in command that displays all those items (`rails notes`). To filter items by the category, I pipe the output from that command to ripgrep:
For long-term ones, I use TODO notes scattered around my Rails codebase. I have segmented those items into 3 categories: high, medium, and low. Whenever I create a new TODO note, I append one of those categories to it (e.g. TODO[low]).
Rails has a built-in command that displays all those items (`rails notes`). To filter items by the category, I pipe the output from that command to ripgrep: