I'd say I do this more on an "as-needed" basis, which I doubt is every day.
I typically do sit down at the end of the day and go over a list of all the things that have been done and those still yet to do and prepare a plan of attack for the next day, which, from time to time, does include improvements in workflow.
Over the last year or two, I've taken to thorough note-taking. Every time I'm on a phone call, I take notes. Whenever I'm working on some bit of code and happen to see something that needs improved later, make an improvement, get an idea about a feature, etc. I take notes. Whenever I review things with a client, I take notes.
They're all handwritten, with a good pen, in Mead notebooks I get for $0.15/each during "back to school" sales. Each project gets its own (labelled) notebook, and I have another one for miscellaneous notes.
This all sounds very simple and obvious, but the act of physically writing things down in a book I can flip through, mark things out of, and scribble on (vs. typing them in a text file to get lost somewhere on the hard drive, or in an application I have to open amongst other windows) has done wonders for my productivity.
I typically do sit down at the end of the day and go over a list of all the things that have been done and those still yet to do and prepare a plan of attack for the next day, which, from time to time, does include improvements in workflow.
Over the last year or two, I've taken to thorough note-taking. Every time I'm on a phone call, I take notes. Whenever I'm working on some bit of code and happen to see something that needs improved later, make an improvement, get an idea about a feature, etc. I take notes. Whenever I review things with a client, I take notes.
They're all handwritten, with a good pen, in Mead notebooks I get for $0.15/each during "back to school" sales. Each project gets its own (labelled) notebook, and I have another one for miscellaneous notes.
This all sounds very simple and obvious, but the act of physically writing things down in a book I can flip through, mark things out of, and scribble on (vs. typing them in a text file to get lost somewhere on the hard drive, or in an application I have to open amongst other windows) has done wonders for my productivity.