Issue trackers are a godsend. If I couldn't write up the various ideas I have while working on other things, I'd never get anything done. Either I'd be flitting around to lower-prio tasks or I'd be constantly tripping over issues that I happened upon earlier or I'd straight up forget to do things.
TODO lists help, but I've never managed to consistently review and clear my TODO lists. That's more often where tasks go to die.
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So are issue trackers something you use on GitHub for the most part? Sorry if that's a stupid question, I know nothing about software engineering.
@PsychoCod3r on GitHub, yes, but also at work. at work it serves some of the same functions, although, since I'm doing less design and architecture at work, it's mostly writing up big reports. at work, the bigger advantage of our issue tracker is team coordination: I work with a relatively large team of folks in different subdisciplines (systems engineering, security, computer infrastructure) and we would be constantly creating ad-hoc systems of reference to identify work that needed to be done if we didn't use the tracker as a medium of communication.
