Status Update Writer
Brain-dump what you did, get a clean status update for your manager, team, or standup.
New to this? Read the guide.
What it produces
Real output from this tool, not a mock-up.
What went in
- What did you do
- finished the onboarding email rewrite, shipped tuesday. open rates on the first email went from 31 to 44 percent, small sample. started on the export feature, backend done, frontend maybe 2 days out. spent too long wednesday debugging the staging deploy, expired cert, lost most of a day. quarterly review with the CS team, they want better visibility on at-risk accounts. next week: finish exports, start scoping the at-risk thing. also I'm off friday.
- Audience
- Manager
- Format
- Did / In progress / Blocked
What came back
Done - Onboarding email rewrite shipped Tuesday: first email open rate up from 31% to 44% in the first few days (small sample so far) - Quarterly review with CS team done, they want better visibility into at-risk accounts, could turn into a small project In progress - Export feature: backend done, frontend about 2 days out - Scoping the at-risk accounts project next week Blocked - Lost most of Wednesday to a staging deploy issue (expired cert), resolved but ate a day Heads up: I'm off Friday.
When to use it
Use this when you know what you did and cannot face writing it up again. Brain-dump the week in whatever order it comes out and you get it shaped for the audience and format you pick. Same material reads very differently going to your manager, your team, or a stakeholder group.