End-of-day update in three lines
Close the day in three lines so the next time zone knows where things stand.
When you finish work, so the next time zone starts with it
The three lines
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Finished
What did you finish today?
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Open
What did you leave open, and where is it?
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Watch out
What should the next person know? Leave empty if nothing.
Each line: 80 characters at most.
Copy the template
Finished: Open: Watch out:
Plain text. Paste it into any chat tool or document and use it today.
An example end-of-day update blip
- Finished Fixed the login loop on Safari, deployed at 4pm
- Open Search filters half done, branch is filters-v2
- Watch out Staging database is being restored, do not run migrations
A written sample, not a real team's update.
Questions
What is an end-of-day update?
A short note written when you stop work. It tells teammates, often in another time zone, what is finished, what is still open and anything they should be careful with.
How is it different from a daily standup?
A standup looks forward from the start of your day. An end-of-day update looks back from the end of it, which suits handoffs between time zones.
Do I have to write it every day?
Only on days you worked on something a teammate might pick up or depend on. An update with nothing in it is noise.
tblip is in development. The template above works without it.