I find that I really struggle to remember what I’ve done specifically before the current task I’m working on. Then I go through my tickets and I start remembering, but off the top of my head it’s pretty blank.
Makes me nervous about getting fired and having nothing to talk about in interviews. I should probably be writing things down as I do them.
This is one of the things that chatbots are really good at doing, but there can be security problems if sensitive data is passed into an external service when talking about your work day. If there's any interally focused tool that works for that, use it along with your notes, and you can quickly get summaries of the whole week.
Another reason might be that, something really common among neurodivergent developers, you may feel some amount of shame over time spent "working" or "being productive" vs not, so making a full accounting of time spent can feel like a ton of pressure to grapple with "not being good enough". Its one of the ways that imposter syndrome can rear its head.
If any of this might be what you're feeling, it may be time to grapple that your brain isn't neurotypical and you don't work in a neurotypical way. I've been massively praised about my output and gotten multiple promotions and even put on leadership tracks, but always had imposter syndrome because I'd look at my day and realize I spent a lot of time just pondering, pacing, doing self care or spending time with my focus divided - aka working but not to what I counted as it.
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