Developers

For Developers managing coding tasks, bug fixes, and software deployments, Akiflow’s Folders, Projects, Sections, and Tags offer a powerful system to keep tasks organized, ensure nothing falls through the cracks, and prioritize efficiently.

Folders: Organize by workstreams

Folders provide a high-level grouping of your tasks, keeping projects and responsibilities organized across different areas of focus.

Suggested Folders:

  1. Personal: Separate personal projects or learning initiatives

  2. Work: Group all tasks related to your job

  3. DevOps: Focus on tasks involving infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and deployments

  4. Bug Tracking: Centralize bug-related tasks to stay on top of fixes and improvements

  5. Learning: Organize tasks for upskilling, learning new languages, or exploring new tools

Folders are expandable or collapsible giving you a streamlined view of your Akiflow sidebar.

Projects: Break down key focus areas

Projects allow you to drill into specific initiatives, coding tasks, and deliverables, ensuring each piece of your work remains actionable and organized.

Suggested Projects:

Assign tasks to specific projects for clear segmentation. Projects can be color-coded and can have different emojis for visual organization.

Sections: Structure workflows within projects

Sections allow you to organize tasks within a project into actionable workflows, phases, or priorities, making it easier to focus on current work while keeping an eye on next steps.

Suggested Sections:

Sections can help declutter your task list, making it easier to focus on specific stages or categories within your Project. They are also useful for workflows like Kanban or when breaking down projects into steps.

Tags: Add context and prioritize tasks

Tags add flexibility by allowing you to track cross-project contexts like task status, priority, or ownership.

Suggested Tags:

  • Bug-fixing: Use for tasks related to addressing bugs, across any project

  • MR: Tasks requiring a Merge Request review or approval

  • Next Release: Tasks planned for the upcoming product release

  • To Review: Tasks awaiting review (code, testing, or QA)

  • Refactor: For tasks involving code clean-up or optimization

  • Waiting For: Tasks blocked or pending an external dependency (e.g., feedback, approvals)

You can add multiple tags to a single task for cross-referencing and clarity (i.e. a tasked tagged both as Bug Fixing and Next Release). You can also filter asks by tags to quickly find related items.

Best Practices

  • Integrate and automate where possible: Sync Akiflow with platforms like Jira or Linear to seamlessly pull in tasks assigned to you and keep your workflow centralized in one place

  • Keep it simple: Use folders, projects, and sections to create structure but keep tags simple and consistent

  • Review regularly: Use daily and weekly Rituals to revisit folders, projects, and tags and ensure that you stay aligned with your priorities (or to track and continue building your portfolio)

Need help?

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