Love coding? Code for yourself #Innovation

Hi Friends,

If you love coding, code for yourself and try to solve your problem with that.

I will share my small experience.

As a coder, I like to solve my daily challenges with different ways.

Challenge I had:

One of the challenge for me was to remember things/tasks. That when you have to remember too many things and you have too much pending work to be done.

Even If I write it down so that I can read them later, I forget to read that on time and missing out lot of things in daily schedule. Previously working from office, I used to write down task on white board which was attached to my desk.

But due to lockdown and while working from home, I don't have white board at home so thought of implementing below thing.

Solution that I implemented:

I have written a small Windows Service (it is windows form, but I have not given it any UI, so calling it Windows Service), which will open file which is kept in folder.

If it is already open then it will bring that file at top on your screen. I kept one excelsheet named "MyPendingTasks.xlsx" and in that sheet I put following columns

Task Name, Status of task, Priority, Start Date, End Date, Comments

We can keep whatever columns or row we want, do conditional formatting and other stuff.

So every 1 hr it will pop-up to top of screen reminding me my pending tasks.

How did it help to me?

1) I can sort in sheet according to priority, so I get idea which task need to be perform first.

2) I can filter with status to show only pending and not started tasks.

3) If I have very urgent task/issue, I mark that in flashy colour so I can see it first.

4) It saved lots of time, because now don't have situation to say that I forgot it yesterday.

5) When 5 min unplanned call get extended for quite a long time, it reminds me that I have pending work to do.

Innovation need not to be always big innovation. Even small innovation or small idea can have big impact.

This was the small innovation which is playing quite a big role in my life for managing time and priorities among tasks.

And as a coder if your coding is solving your problem, then its feeling is different. And you are ready to go for solving others/ organizations problems too.

I would also like to thank our organization Icertis which continuously focusing on innovation and arranging sessions like design thinking, creative thinking and other learning programs.