Jots: Developer Journaling App for Career Growth

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Introduction

Jots is a developer-focused journaling app designed to help engineers accelerate their goals, improve technical skills, track progress, reflect, and take action. It acts as a 'second brain' for engineers to level up their expertise daily. Visit Jots.

How to Use Jots

To use Jots, users need to sign up to start their journaling journey. They can then use the app to track their progress, reflect on their work, and take action. It allows for logging debugging steps, saving learnings, dumping ideas, and organizing thoughts.

Core Features

• Progress tracking and reflection
• AI-powered 'Rubber Duck' for thought processing and problem-solving
• PR backstory tracking (thought process logging)
• Debugging steps logging for future reference
• Growth measurement and achievement tracking
• Learning repository to save insights and solutions
• Developer-friendly space for ideas, errors, and solutions
• Note organization and tagging
• Support for promotion cases and job interviews by showcasing achievements

Use Cases

1. Accelerating career goals and achieving promotions
2. Improving technical skills and expertise
3. Debugging complex problems with AI assistance
4. Documenting thought processes for code reviews and refactors
5. Creating a cheat sheet for recurring debugging issues
6. Visualizing personal and professional growth as a developer
7. Consolidating learnings to avoid repetitive searches
8. Organizing and managing multiple ideas and side projects
9. Showcasing achievements for job interviews or promotion applications

FAQ

• What is Jots?
• Is Jots free to use?
• How can Jots help me debug problems?
• Can Jots help with career advancement?
• Is Jots open source?

Links

• Login: https://www.daily-jots.com/login
• Sign up: https://www.daily-jots.com/signup
• GitHub: https://github.com/loicboset/DevLogApp