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The best way to track your work achievements
Any method you use every week beats a better method you abandon. The real difference between methods is how likely you are to keep going, and whether the entries are specific enough to use months later.
| Method | Works well | Falls short | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Memory | No effort, no tools. | Detail fades within weeks. Reviews end up reflecting the last month. | Nobody, if the outcome matters. |
| Notes app | Free, already on your phone, fast to open. | A blank page every time. Entries drift into vague one-liners and are hard to reuse. | Disciplined people who already write regularly. |
| Spreadsheet | Structured columns, easy to sort and filter. | Feels like admin, so the habit usually stops within a few months. | People who enjoy spreadsheets and review them often. |
| Brag document | A single running document focused on wins. | Usually updated in bursts before a review, which is the problem it was meant to solve. | People with a fixed weekly reminder to update it. |
| Look At You Go | Talk for 90 seconds a week. It structures what you said into dated evidence and helps turn it into reviews, promotion cases and CVs. | It is a paid product after the 14-day trial for the analysis features, and it needs a weekly habit like any method. Basic capture stays free. | People who want the record without maintaining a document. |
How to choose
Pick the method you will open every week, then make each entry specific: what happened, what you did, what changed, where the proof is.
Whatever you choose, the weekly log template gives it a structure.
A note on fairness
We make Look At You Go, so we are not neutral. We have listed its limits alongside the others. See our editorial policy.
You did the work. Keep the evidence. LAYG turns a 90-second weekly check-in into a dated record you can use for all of this.
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