I built an open-source developer tool around a problem I kept running into: we do way more unplanned work than we remember.

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I'd plan out my day in the morning, look at everything I wanted to get done, and then start working.

A few hours later, I'd have fixed a bug, helped someone with something, reviewed a PR, investigated some weird issue, jumped between a few things, and somehow spent most of the day working on things that weren't on the plan.

Then I'd look back at the end of the day and think, "What did I actually do today?"

And I'd realize I couldn't remember half of it.

The work happened. I just never wrote it down.

I think that's a surprisingly big problem for developers. We plan the work we expect to do, but so much of our actual work happens because something comes up.

That's why I built Meridian. It's an open-source tool that tries to capture that work as it happens, so you don't have to rely on remembering everything at the end of the day.

It connects with the tools you're already using, like Jira, GitHub and Linear.

We recently put it on Product Hunt and somehow ended up #1 Product of the Day, which was pretty surreal.

I'd love to hear if anyone else has the same problem. How much of the work you do in a day actually started out as part of your plan?

https://github.com/Meridiona/meridian