What tools I use to manage Game Engine Development

Summary

视频介绍了如何使用Notion这款生产力应用来组织Hazel软件的开发工作。Notion不仅仅是一个笔记应用，它还能够整合其他工具，填补工作流程中的空白。视频中展示了Notion在个人工作流程中的应用，以及如何与Jira和Google Docs等其他应用平台协同工作，从而提高工作效率。

Takeaways

• 📝 Notion 是一款生产力应用，不仅仅是记事本，还能整合其他工具。
• 🔗 Notion 可以作为工作流程中的中心枢纽，帮助组织和追踪任务。
• 🌐 Notion 支持云存储，方便在不同设备间同步和访问信息。
• 📋 Notion 适合记录会议笔记、组织文档和管理项目中的Bug。
• 🔗 Notion 可以与其他工具如 Jira 集成，显示问题跟踪信息。
• 🆓 Notion 有免费版本，对于个人用户来说功能已足够。
• 📚 Google Docs 适用于编写较长的文档，支持实时协作和导出为PDF。
• 🐞 Jira 是一个由 Atlassian 提供的问题跟踪平台，适合团队使用。
• 🔍 Jira 提供了清晰的项目视图，帮助项目经理监控进度和分配任务。
• 👥 对于小型团队，Jira 和其他 Atlassian 产品如 Confluence 是免费使用的。
• 🔄 有效的工具和工作流程对于个人和团队的生产力至关重要。

Q & A

Notion 是一款怎样的生产力应用？

Notion 是一款多功能的生产力应用，它不仅仅是一个笔记应用，还能整合其他工具，帮助用户组织和同步信息。

为什么作者经常保持 Notion 应用在电脑上打开？

作者经常保持 Notion 打开，因为他经常需要记录东西、截图或粘贴图片，Notion 提供了一个方便的分类和组织内容的方式。

Notion 如何帮助作者避免笔记丢失？

与简单的记事本工具不同，Notion 允许用户对笔记进行分类、添加到页面以及创建页面间的链接，从而有效地组织内容，避免笔记丢失。

作者如何使用 Notion 来记录会议内容？

作者在会议期间使用 Notion 记录笔记，并将这些笔记保存在便于回顾的地方，以确保工作进度和问题不被遗忘。

Notion 与其他工具的集成如何帮助作者？

Notion 可以集成 Jira、Google Docs 和 GitHub 等工具，使得作者可以在一个中心位置查看所有任务、文档和代码更新，提高了工作效率。

作者为什么在写较长的文档时会选择使用 Google Docs？

作者选择 Google Docs 是因为它支持长文档的分页，具有实时协作功能，并且可以方便地导出为 PDF 格式。

Jira 在作者的工作中扮演什么角色？

Jira 是一个问题追踪平台，作者使用它来管理 Hazel 项目中的每个任务和错误，确保团队的工作有序进行。

作者为什么认为 Jira 比 GitHub Issues 更优秀？

作者认为 Jira 是一个专门为问题追踪设计的平台，而 GitHub Issues 相比之下更像是一个附加在代码仓库上的功能，不如 Jira 专业。

Notion 的免费层级提供哪些功能？

Notion 的免费层级提供了大部分个人用户可能需要的功能，但如果需要同步多个数据库，则可能需要升级到付费层级。

作者如何描述自己的工作流程？

作者描述自己的工作流程仍在建设中，他强调了使用 Notion、Jira 和 Google Docs 等工具来组织工作的重要性，以避免工作被遗忘或浪费时间。

作者如何推荐 Notion 给观众？

作者推荐观众尝试使用 Notion 来组织生活和工作，强调其免费层级已经非常强大，并且可以通过链接 ntn.so/channel 开始免费使用。

Outlines

00:00

📚 Notion在Hazel开发中的应用

本段介绍了Notion作为一款生产力应用程序在Hazel开发中的多种用途。Notion不仅仅是一个笔记应用，它还能整合其他工具，填补了许多小的空白，因此经常在作者的电脑上保持打开状态。作者通常使用Notion来记录会议笔记、组织文档、追踪bug，以及规划新功能。Notion的云存储功能使得数据可以在不同设备间同步，这对于作者来说非常方便。此外，Notion还可以嵌入整个网页，方便作者保存和查阅信息。

05:01

🔗 Notion与Jira的集成

这一部分讨论了Notion与Jira的集成，以及Notion的不同版本及其功能。Notion免费版对于个人用户来说功能已经相当全面，但如果需要同步多个数据库，则可能需要升级到付费版本。作者强调了Notion的集成能力，特别是与Jira的集成，通过粘贴Jira问题的链接，Notion能够展示问题信息并保持更新。作者还提到了Notion、Google Docs和Jira等工具在组织工作中的重要性。

10:02

📈 项目管理与工作流程

最后一段主要讲述了作者作为Hazel技术总监时使用Jira进行项目管理的经验。作者解释了Jira作为一个问题追踪平台的优势，如何帮助团队追踪任务和bug，以及如何通过Jira的看板视图来管理项目进度。作者还提到了Jira的免费版本适用于小团队，并推荐了其他替代品，如GitLab Issues和GitHub Issues。最后，作者强调了组织工作的重要性，并鼓励观众尝试使用Notion来提高生活和工作的组织效率。

Keywords

💡Notion

Notion是一款生产力应用程序，它不仅仅是一个笔记应用，而是能够整合多种工具的平台。在视频中，Notion被用作组织Hazel软件开发的核心工具，它能够让用户轻松地记录笔记、创建页面、建立页面间的链接，以及嵌入网页内容。它的云端存储功能使得用户可以在不同设备上同步和访问信息。

💡生产力应用

生产力应用是指那些能够帮助用户提高工作效率、组织任务和优化时间管理的软件工具。在视频中，Notion作为一个生产力应用，它通过整合笔记、任务管理、文档存储等功能，帮助用户更好地组织工作流程。

💡云端存储

云端存储是一种数据存储方式，它将数据保存在互联网上的服务器中，而不是本地计算机。这样用户可以随时随地通过互联网访问自己的数据。在视频中，Notion的云端存储功能使得说话者可以在不同的设备上同步和访问工作内容。

💡工作流程

工作流程是指完成特定任务或项目所需遵循的一系列步骤或程序。在视频中，说话者讨论了他如何使用Notion和其他工具（如Google Docs和Jira）来组织和管理Hazel软件的开发工作流程。

💡Jira

Jira是一款由Atlassian公司开发的项目管理和问题跟踪软件，它允许团队创建、分配和跟踪任务或问题。在视频中，Jira被用作Hazel软件开发的问题跟踪平台，帮助团队成员管理任务、估计完成时间并协作。

💡Google Docs

Google Docs是Google提供的在线文档编辑和协作平台，允许用户创建、编辑和共享文档。在视频中，说话者使用Google Docs来编写更正式的文档，如技术文档或提案，因为它支持实时协作和导出为PDF格式。

💡集成

集成在软件领域通常指的是将多个应用程序或服务的功能结合在一起，以便它们可以无缝地协同工作。在视频中，说话者强调了Notion与其他工具（如Jira和Google Docs）的集成能力，这使得他能够将不同的工作内容集中在一个平台上管理。

💡任务管理

任务管理是指对个人或团队的任务进行规划、组织、领导和控制的过程，以实现目标。在视频中，通过使用Jira这样的工具，说话者能够为Hazel项目创建任务、分配责任人、估计完成时间，并确保任务得到执行。

💡笔记

笔记是记录信息、想法或会议内容的文本。在视频中，说话者使用Notion来记录笔记，这些笔记可以是临时的思考，也可以是重要的会议记录，它们被组织在Notion的不同页面中，便于后续查找和参考。

💡同步

同步是指在多个设备或系统之间同时更新和共享数据的过程。在视频中，说话者强调了Notion的同步功能，使得他在不同设备上的工作内容保持一致，从而提高了工作效率。

💡项目管理

项目管理是指对项目的整体规划、组织、指导和控制，以确保项目目标的实现。在视频中，说话者使用Notion和Jira等工具来进行项目管理，通过创建任务、分配资源、追踪进度和解决问题来推动Hazel软件的开发。

Highlights

Notion作为一个生产力应用，不仅仅是一个笔记应用，它能够整合其他工具并填补很多小的空白。

Notion经常保持在打开状态，因为它非常方便用于记录和分类笔记，甚至创建页面间的链接。

Notion可以嵌入整个网页，即使原网页未来被删除或离线，内容依然可以在Notion中查看。

Notion的数据存储在云端，方便在不同设备间同步，如笔记本电脑、手机和iPad。

Notion对于会议记录非常有用，可以轻松记录和追踪工作进度，确保不会忘记任何问题。

Notion的集成功能非常强大，可以与Jira等工具整合，直接在Notion中查看Jira问题。

Notion有不同层次的订阅计划，但免费版已经包含了大多数个人用户所需的功能。

对于需要写更正式文档的情况，Google Docs是一个很好的选择，尤其是它的实时协作功能。

Google Docs可以方便地导出为PDF格式，适合需要打印或作为正式文件发送的场合。

Jira是一个优秀的问题跟踪平台，适用于小型团队的项目管理和任务分配。

Jira的看板视图非常有用，可以清晰地展示项目的整体进展和每个任务的时间承诺。

Jira帮助团队保持任务的最新状态，确保项目按时进展，没有遗漏。

尽管存在其他问题跟踪工具，但Jira因其专注于项目管理而优于GitHub Issues。

组织工作流程对于个人和团队的成功至关重要，无论是使用Notion、Jira还是Google Docs。

Notion、Jira和Google Docs的结合使用，为Hazel软件的开发提供了有效的组织和管理。

Notion赞助了这个视频，展示了其在内容创作和工作流程中的实际应用和价值。

Transcripts

all right so notion I wanted to do

another sponsored video so I thought

this would be a good opportunity to talk

about how we kind of organized the

development of Hazel because that

genuinely involves notion long story

short notion is a productivity app that

is kind of like a note-taking app but

it's like so much more than that it's

obviously not the only tool that we use

but it actually acts as a really good

Hub to bring other tools together and

there's so many kind of little gaps that

it fills in that it actually ends up

just being open on my computer like

minimized at all times because I just

find myself using it so often so in this

video I'm just going to show you a

little bit about how notion is used in

my kind of workflow and also like the

other apps and platforms that we use to

organize Hazel's software development

foreign so first and foremost notion I

mentioned that it stays open on my

computer a lot of the time and the

reason for that is truthful firstly if I

need to write something down like I want

to take some notes or just like take a

little screenshot of something or paste

in an image that's kind of where I do it

I just put it into notion now I used to

just like open notepad for that just

because it's so quick to just hit the

Windows key type in notepad and just

paste stuff in but the problem with that

is that unless it's like a really really

transient kind of temporary note it's

probably going to wind up getting lost

but with notion with something a little

bit more serious you know I can easily

just like categorize it add it to like a

page even like create links between

pages to keep stuff organized I can have

these like toggleable headings as well

aside from just being able to paste in

any kind of content you could really

imagine I can also embed like entire web

pages so like even if they just get

taken down or go offline or whatever in

the future I can literally just like be

reading an article and be like hey

notion I want to embed all the contents

of this webpage and it will do it and it

works everywhere I remember some people

saying that like notion stores your data

on the cloud therefore it's bad and I'm

like no no that's the point like I get

it maybe if you have some really

sensitive data you maybe don't want to

trust like having it sold on the cloud

you want to be completely offline maybe

you want something like obsidian and

that's cool between you and me I have

like a secret uh personal Journal that I

keep an obsidian but for like work stuff

it's just so convenient to be able to

pull it up on your laptop like on your

phone I have an iPad as well that I like

to use for taking down notes and it's

just so great to just have everything

synced between all your devices I mean I

really shouldn't be telling you guys

this like it's life in the cloud has

been pretty good the past like decade or

so and as I mentioned for meetings like

I like to take down notes of meetings I

might just like sit on the couch have a

meeting with Peter all the way over in

Sweden just take notes on my laptop and

they're all obviously available on my

desktop it's basically like a Google doc

so that's probably like my number one

use case for notion it's like I just

need take down some notes I need to

organize some documentation I need to

make sure I don't forget about those

bugs and Hazel Peter sent me something

cool let me check that out but I can't

check it out right now so maybe I'll

just file it away all of like I mean

just looking at what I have a notion

like all the meeting notes from like all

of our past meetings which is good to

chase up work and make sure it's getting

done and issues aren't being forgotten

about planning stuff like planning

stuff's really useful like I have like I

do a lot of stuff for hazel obviously

like when I was planning like the new

kind of renderer for hazel it was just

great to be able to you know write stuff

down here make sure that I don't forget

anything as well paste and like

screenshots you know links to kind of

good articles tied in with like a an

eventual kind of video idea that I want

to like make with my findings but then

the other like really useful use case I

think for notion at least for me is just

the fact that it integrates like with

everything like you know I have all of

these jira issues for example and we'll

talk about jira a little bit later in

this video but like all of the issues

that are being tracked like for hazel I

can just see them right here in notion I

can have like this kind of welcome page

that is just like my hub for like hey

it's a Monday morning or whatever I have

no idea what's going on because the

weekend just happened I need to get back

into work like where is everything like

what's happening what are the tasks like

what are the latest commits that have

gone into Hazel like from the rest of

the team where are my quick little links

to like open up all the stuff that I

need to I don't know like what's the

weather right now like what's my

calendar looking like you know all of

this stuff you can just put into like a

little like a welcome page in notion and

obviously this is just one way to use

these Integrations but I like doing that

I actually got the idea from Tim because

it means I can just kind of open up a

single page and just see an overview of

what's happening it's like having a home

page for your web browser but this is

like a home page for your life or your

work or whatever it is you care about so

from an organizational point of view

like I really have to say that notion

kind of acts as like a central

repository for like all the information

that I want to store but then it's also

like a central place that ties in

everything else so like you know jira I

don't know Google Docs and documentation

like all the kind of GitHub stuff as

well I can tie in all that into notion

it becomes kind of like a starting point

it integrates really nicely with jira

because you can see all I have to do is

paste a link to a jira issue a notion

and it will display it nicely and kind

of even give me some of the information

about it now there are several tiers of

notion but the free tier is like

honestly has pretty much all the

features you could probably want if

you're just working by yourself if

you're in a team notion plus is a really

good plan to take a look at but

otherwise for most of you like the free

tier of notion will probably have like

everything you need the only downside I

would say for like a solar user would be

you can only have one synced database

which means that if you want to have

like jira issues but then you also want

to have like your GitHub commit like

your calendar or something automatically

synced like you can only do that to one

thing and that's where an operator might

make sense but definitely head on over

to ntn.so Cherno and just try out notion

you can try it out for free as I

mentioned the free tier is great and

notion has sponsored this video so a

huge thank you to them

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now as good as Martian is for like

taking notes and all that stuff if I

have like a little bit more of a serious

document to write I'll usually use

Google Docs the way I see it is that

even though I definitely enjoy using

notion a little bit more just because I

can use all of these blocks just by like

typing in slash and it's kind of just a

more I don't know fluent way to write

notes I guess because kind of like

markdown and you don't have to like keep

clicking on formatting options and stuff

like that it also has a dark mode just

like out of the box which Google Docs

like I mean it's not that's not that

easy to set up but the way I see it is

that if it's like a long long document

that really should be divided into kind

of pages that you maybe even print and

also as a benefit it kind of has that

like real-time collaboration out of the

box as well for that kind of stuff it's

really useful like I might ask Xerox for

example this happened recently when he

was working on the animation system like

hey can you please put together like a

dock of this new process that you're

proposing you know he even did something

similar thing for quaternions when he

was trying to convert a few things that

were still in Euler angles like into

quaternions in in Hazel they threw

together like a little dot I love the

fact that Google Docs can just be

exported to PDFs like immediately that

makes it really really really simple to

just write something send it to someone

and it's just like a regular document so

like for documents Google Docs like I

love using that

now the final piece of the puzzle is

jira so atlassian jira is like an issue

tracking kind of platform I guess you

know it's really funny because so we

used to use jira at EA I mean well I'm

sure they still use it but back when I

worked at EA like we used jira for our

issue tracking and I hated it because as

like a software engineer I just kind of

wanted to write like the code and then

it's kind of like oh make sure you're

logging your time in jira make sure that

you make a jira for every issue like

we'd have these development directors

DDS they were called and their job was

solely to basically like I mean they

kind of oversaw the production of it it

didn't help that back then in the Osiris

days when I was working on the mobile

internet EA for the longest time it felt

like none of the DDS actually had any

idea like really what a game engine was

they were just like they had worked on

games in the past but not game engines

and so there was this weird like our

technical director which is have

arguments in meetings like with all of

the whole team there with the DD being

like no actually you have no idea what

you're talking about there's not having

this works like how do you not know what

this is and it was just hilarious but

anyway the point is these DDS would

always be like make sure you're logging

your jiras make sure you do this and

that and it was just everyone hated jira

but now now that I am like the technical

director of Hazel and we don't have a

development director and I'm kind of

also I guess in charge of overseeing the

development of the project I love I

actually really like jira I mean it's

different maybe because it's obviously a

lot less corporate than like something

like EA there's teams also a lot smaller

but jira is free for like up to 10

people in fact a lot of atlassian

products like a Confluence which we used

to use at EA we don't actually use this

in Hazel at the moment but I'm

considering it that's also free up to 10

people so if you guys are in a small

team like I highly recommend you do

check out some of these atlassian

products and jira being an issue tracker

basically what that means is that every

single little task or bug that we're

working on in Hazel we can basically

make an issue for it we can like

estimate how long it will take to fix

that we can make sure that people are

assigned to it we can make sure people

are actually working on it it's really

useful for me as like the project

manager to be able to see kind of like

this roadmap view which I love which

just shows you like hey here are all of

the epics which are kind of like I guess

collections of tasks that form like one

a huge kind of task so it might be

something like a release version or a

major feature and it's made up of all

these tiny tasks but I can kind of see

what the time commitment for that is and

just make sure that like if we're trying

to release something you know by

December this year for example like

we're gonna make it and obviously

nothing is going to get overlooked like

it's not going to be like oh I

completely forgot about that bug or I

didn't do this because it's all kind of

tracked it's all organized and this kind

of visual view is also really really

useful it's also really good for me to

just rock up on a Monday morning as I

said before with the whole notion Hub

situation like it's really good for me

to rock up on a Monday morning and be

like what on Earth is the team currently

doing and just being able to kind of see

I guess Peter's working on this you know

zero X is kind of finishing up his

animation thing hopefully this week

that's really useful obviously as long

as you your team actually keeps their

jira out up to date that's really useful

because it means that I don't have to

chase off everyone and be like hey Peter

how's this going are you almost done

with that or what are you currently

working on I have no idea now there are

alternatives to jira again as like we

use jira in a free capacity and to be

honest it's so good that like if I was

paying for it I'd also probably be happy

there are other Alternatives like if

you're on git lab you could use gitlab

issues if you're on GitHub the kind of

Studio Channel repositories are

currently hosted on GitHub like we could

use GitHub issues obviously for this

kind of stuff uh there's a couple of

reasons why we use jira one of them is

because we kind of keep the development

of Hazel internal meaning that like only

people who are in the studio Channel

organization actually have access to

this kind of stuff because we want to

separate Community issues from internal

issues but also because I like in my

opinion like I think jira is far

superior to GitHub issues I mean jira is

like a whole platform made for this kind

of issue tracking stuff whereas GitHub

even though like they have definitely

expanded on their features for issue

tracking it still feels like a little

kind of add-on to a repository rather

than like I'm managing this huge

software project please give me all of

these tools so that's why we use and

love jira

all right that's it hope that was

helpful hope you guys learned a little

something about our workflow a workflow

that is still very much under

construction might I add I am still what

I consider to be very bad at running

things here having these tools in place

and these workflows are really really

important because I'm a very busy man on

one hand I'm building and leading the

development of a game engine which that

by itself is not easy but then I'm also

running a YouTube channel making sure

that I make videos like this one to fund

development of said engine and that's

just the work side of things in my life

so if I've learned anything in the last

like four years since I left EA and am

now working for myself and I am the boss

now is that stuff needs to be organized

stuff needs to go into notion or jira or

Google Docs or wherever it is because if

it doesn't it either wastes time or it

gets forgotten about and neither of

those two things are good in fact I'm

pretty sure I lost a bill and I need to

request that again so I can pay it

anyway I highly encourage that you guys

take a look at notion if you haven't

already you can get started absolutely

for free just go to ntn.so channel the

link will be in the description below

give it a go it's a really good way to

organize your life and your work just to

organize the chaos really alright I'll

see you guys next time goodbye