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Daily task roundup

A daily message with a read on where every paid project stands, so I don't have to open the board to find out.

What it would tell me​

  • The current task for each project
  • Projects with no open tasks at all
  • Projects with open tasks but nothing flagged Up next

Why​

The Paid Work board answers this if I go and look at it. The point of this is not having to look. A project quietly going idle is the failure mode worth catching, and that's invisible unless something tells me.

Rough shape​

Read the Paid Work project via the GitHub GraphQL API, group items by repo, then send a summary somewhere I'll actually see it. Runs on a daily schedule rather than on an event.

Open questions:

  • Where does the message go? Email, Slack, phone push
  • What time of day? First thing suits a roundup, but it'd need to be worth reading every morning or it becomes noise
  • Does it also flag when something has sat in Waiting on client too long

Depends on the Up next checkbox field existing on the Paid Work project.