How do you log your work as a product manager?

[Gergo Matyas]

Hey there,

I just want to collect some hints about logging my work. Our company uses time tracking, we log our work on Jira issues which can be challenging when you do general activities like following the community, reading announcements, overviewing product stats, and checking competitors. 

We created a few "container" issues where we can log meetings and other activities, but I don't find this effective.

Any best practices out there?

[Alex Koxaras _Relational_]

Hi @Gergo Matyas 

In your case I would create in a project of mine (or in a company "general" project) some issues with the work you are doing most often, like the ones you are mentioning. And then I would simply log the time spent on each of this.

[Aron Gombas _Midori_]

I don't know if you use Tempo to track your time, but their best practice is using so-called "internal issues" for these:

https://www.tempo.io/blog/2016/manage-and-track-internal-work-with-internal-issues

So, pretty much what you're doing already.