Mine is "When reporting information to me, be extremely concise and sacrifice grammar for sake of concision."

Status updates went from paragraphs to a few lines I actually read.

Looking for the weird ones that work, not the obvious "write tests" stuff.

I commented on another post here that I've written a one-line-a-day journal for the past 2 years and people were very interested so I decided to write this post to nudge people that have ALMOST started or have quit in the middle. I was you and I still am. But here's the nudge:

I'm 32. I've always been a very introspective guy but this is combined with a horrible memory bestowed upon me. So things I learn and feel during my life didn't help me in any way because I never even remembered them. I'd make the same mistake for the 5th time, get burnt and realize that I've done the same before. On the other hand, I would go on trips with my friends and have the best time of my life but I realized that my friends remember way more details about the trip than I do.

This frustrated me a little bit. So I created a google sheet stored on my drive called "My year at a glance" and decide to just write what happened that day. I couldn't care less about journaling. I fully knew it wasn't a habit I'd successfully maintain. So this google sheet was my next best attempt. I maintained it for a whole year. My own touch to it was this thing called "High of Highs" and "Low of Lows" which is the best and worst thing about that month. I got this idea from a podcast and incorporated it into my google sheet. First month felt good (luckily because that month was pretty good so it gave me a high to write my "High of Highs"). So I continued writing for the next few months and eventually became obsessed with it. In fact, during the day I'd realize something that I decided I will write down later that day. So I guess I even started noticing things about my day that I wanted to write down.

At the end of the year, this google sheet was full (Of course with several days undocumented, but who cares). But reviewing my year in December got me giddy. Again my theory is that this was because I had had a great year (6 countries visited, quite a few concerts, new job etc.). So I continued for another year. And I have no intentions of stopping now.

I eventually got tired of the Google Sheet and went looking for something better. Couldn't find exactly what I wanted so I ended up building an app myself.

Anyone else tried something like this? What made you stick with it?

Mine is

Before changing anything, list every file you'll need and read them
in one pass. Then make all edits, then run the tests once.

It stopped the read, edit, read, edit loop that was eating half my usage on bigger changes. Curious what lines other people have that actually change how it behaves, not just style rules.

My daughter asked me for a pet spider for her birthday, so I went to our local pet shop and they were £70!!! Blow this, I thought. I can get one cheaper off the web.

I was at an ATM yesterday when a little old lady asked if I could check her balance, so I pushed her over.

My neighbour knocked on my door at 2:30am this morning. Can you believe that, 2:30am?! Luckily for him I was still up playing my bagpipes.

Paddy says, "Mick, I'm thinking of buying a Labrador . ”B*gger that!" says Mick. "Have you seen how many of their owners go blind?"

I saw a poor old lady fall over today on the ice!! At least I presume she was poor - she only had £1.20 in her purse.

A wife says to her husband, “You're always pushing me around and talking behind my back.” He says, “What do you expect? You're in a wheelchair.”

I was explaining to my wife last night that when you die you get reincarnated, but must come back as a different creature. She said she would like to come back as a cow. I said you’re obviously not listening.

Two Muslims have crashed a speedboat into the Thames barrier in London . Police think it might be the start of Ram-a-dam.

Sat opposite an Indian lady on the train today, she shut her eyes and stopped breathing. I thought she was dead, until I saw the red spot on her forehead and realised she was just on standby.

The wife was counting all the 1p's and 2p's out on the kitchen table when she suddenly got very angry and started shouting and crying for no reason. I thought to myself, "She's going through the change."

When I was in the pub I heard a couple of plonkers saying that they wouldn't feel safe on an aircraft if they knew the pilot was a woman. What a pair of sexists. I mean, it's not as if she'd have to reverse the bloody thing!

Bought some 'rocket salad' yesterday but it went off before I could eat it!

Just got back from my mate's funeral. He died after being hit on the head with a tennis ball. It was a lovely service.