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A bit laziness can make you productive

 So recently there was this requirement from the operations team at my current company to keep up an excel sheet for the tasks that we do every day.


Now my company's work culture is pretty good actually. They never sneak up on you to check whether you are doing your tasks or not. They are cool and most importantly they trust you with your tasks. 


This was more like a record for safekeeping, for both parties.
All was good except we should maintain this at least weekly. So at the end of the week if the operations team need to cross-check your task time with your leaves all the sheet should be updated. 


Now see there are many tools out there that can do this pretty easy for you but trust me you don't want to spend a monthly/yearly fee for such a tool that does so little as keeping up the tasks hour and the project associated with that task.
So many times a problem arises for me since I forget things pretty easily. At the end of the week, I need to fill up the entire task records after the operations team's notice. Now if this is happening to me, then it's pretty sure that there might others as well.

So to save up some time for me and my friends at work, me along with my couple of work colleagues, I created lawoup. A LAzy WOrk UPdater.
Each day at 5 PM this mobile app, which runs on flutter along with a nodejs backend server, will remind me to add up my tasks for the day.
But it is simple as selecting the projects from a drop-down, the hours and the other things that go up in the excel in only a matter of seconds.
And the best part is, all I need to do is click the download excel button that formats the entire tasks corresponding to a user to an excel format that divides your task data into monthly sub-pages within the excel sheet, that you can upload wherever you want.

Now this is a simple app and it can be built within a few hours maybe, but the moral of this post is;


There might be problems right in front of you, all you got to do is see it, and tackle it the way you know best. And sometimes a bit of laziness helps, after all the app's motive was laziness.

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