yday

Git retrospective analysis tool that provides semantic summaries of recent development work across multiple repositories.

Why yday?

1. Still working your way through that first ☕️, and can’t remember where you left off yesterday?
2. When work isn’t explicitly planned, we can DRY up the tracking by using the commit itself to fill in a lot of the blanks.

Features

• Multi-repo analysis: Gathers commits across multiple repositories in your workspace
• Semantic summaries: Meaningful chunks of work across commits
• Multiple views: Including Alastair timeline format
• Smart time windows: Monday morning shows Friday’s work (not Sunday’s nothing)
• Shadow work tracking: Retroactively adds unplanned work to your backlog

Installation

npm install -g yday

Usage

Show commits from the last work day:

yday

Alastair Method timeline:

yday --alastair

The tool started as a quick way to check recent work, fundamentally about retrospective analysis of development work.