Workload Tracker — Full-Stack Productivity Tool

Challenge

As someone who works with multiple teams and with different processes, I often find myself context switching every few hours as I have several deliverables throughout the day. While I have grown accustomed to it, there are times when I no longer know which one of the processes I'm working on is taking up so much of my time, and if I have extra bandwidth to accommodate some requests. I then found myself wishing I had something that I could show to people whenever the would ask me, "Ginny, can you accommodate this?"

Action

I co-built a workload tracking tool through AI-assisted development in Kiro IDE. This was my first ever project on Kiro, so the initial build was scrappy — I literaly vibed my way through the whole thing. Kiro, build me a workload tracker. Add this, fix that. I was the only user, after all.

Eventually, I figured this was a platform that I could share with my peers, if they ever wanted to have a workload tracker of their own. I then made some adustments to turn it into the tool it now is today.

The productivity tracker in it's full glory

The Three Iterations

Three versions of the tool, each serving a different purpose:

Main app — Full production version with Google OAuth, Supabase database, and team dashboards. This was the initial build as I was just testing out AI-assisted development back then and thought that implementing OAuth was as easy as pie. I was wrong not only about the latter, but also about the fact that the only way to keep the logs secure was through email log in.
PIN-auth variant — This is a lightweight personal version with simple PIN login, no OAuth complexity. Just a username and a PIN, and you're ready to go. Perfect for people like me who need the least amount of friction to log tasks.
Static demo — Single HTML file proof-of-concept for stakeholders.

Streaks/insights and period views that were added and refined — painstakingly — later on

Customization options (I had a lot of fun with this)

Dark mode by default — Reduces eye strain for a tool you check throughout the day
85% productivity flag — The tool alerts you when you're approaching burnout (research suggests sustained 85%+ utilization leads to quality drops). The user can also adjust their productivity flag percentage to their liking.
Capacity meter front and center — The most critical information is the first thing you see
Quick-add interaction — One-click logging without navigating away from the dashboard
Shareable public dashboards — Toggle visibility so teammates or managers can see your load without needing accounts