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Brag Document & Wins Log

A running record of your wins, feedback and impact, captured in minutes a week and kept safe, so self-reviews, promotion cases, CVs and interviews start from evidence instead of memory.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

Then open the Marketplace in the app, search for Brag Document & Wins Log, and click Install. It goes into your own files, and works offline from then on.

What it installs.

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Brag Document & Wins Log

Keeping a running log of achievements, feedback and impact so reviews, promotions and job applications write themselves.

  1. Choosing a home for your brag document
  2. Confidentiality rules for what your log may hold
  3. Brag document skeleton with standing headings
  4. Standard format for a single wins entry
  5. Tags mapped to your role's competencies
  6. Twelve-month backfill from calendar and sent mail
  7. Kudos folder for praise and thank-you notes
  8. Choosing the numbers your log will track
  9. Quick-capture inbox on phone and laptop
  10. Friday five-minute wins entry
  11. End-of-day one-line work note
  12. Monthly roll-up of wins into the main document
  13. Quarterly highlights summary
  14. Monthly calendar and inbox sweep for missed wins
  15. Evidence link and artefact check
  16. Brag document shared before one-to-ones
  17. Feedback captured at project close
  18. Quarterly tag clean-up
  19. Yearly archive and fresh brag document
  20. Learning log alongside your wins
  21. Context, action and result in every entry
  22. Estimating time and money saved, honestly
  23. Recording shared work and credit fairly
  24. Logging glue work and invisible effort
  25. Lessons log for failures and near misses
  26. Reading back a year of entries for patterns
  27. Using the log on low-confidence days
  28. Private log and shareable brag document split
  29. Pruning a bloated brag document
  30. Automated capture from work tools
  31. Restarting a lapsed wins log
  32. Feedback themes across several years
  33. Linking entries to this year's goals
  34. One-page highlights version for busy readers
  35. Self-assessment drafted from the log
  36. CV bullets refreshed from the wins log
  37. Interview story bank built from logged wins
  38. Promotion evidence pack exported from the log
  39. Exporting your log before your last day
  40. Pay review evidence sheet from the log
  41. Engineer's log of pull requests, incidents and design docs
  42. First-time manager logging team outcomes
  43. Wins log in your first two years of work
  44. Brag document through a manager change or reorg
  45. Wins log for contractors with several clients
  46. Wins log while working part-time or after leave
  47. Senior engineer's log of cross-team influence
  48. Five-year career ledger from annual archives
  49. Coaching your direct reports to keep brag documents
  50. Team brag document for a quarter's shipped work

Where it starts.

Each project arrives with its purpose, milestones and first tasks written out. Here is how the first three read.

Choosing a home for your brag document

A log you cannot open in ten seconds is a log you stop writing. Picking one place for it, a plain document, a notes app or a spreadsheet, that you can reach on both phone and laptop and that you will still own if you leave your employer, removes the biggest reason logs die in their first month.

First tasks

  • List the note tools you already use every day on phone and laptop
  • Check whether each one can export to a plain document or text file
  • Create the brag document in the chosen tool and pin it on every device
  • Export a test copy and open it on a different device

Confidentiality rules for what your log may hold

Wins logs often end up holding client names, unreleased figures and screenshots of internal chats, which can breach your contract or a client agreement the moment the file leaves a work account. Reading your employer's acceptable use and confidentiality policies once, and writing your own three-line rule, lets you log freely without creating a problem for your future self.

First tasks

  • Find the confidentiality and acceptable use sections in your contract or staff handbook
  • Write a three-line rule for what may and may not go in the log
  • List the material types that must stay inside work systems
  • Ask HR in writing if the policy on personal notes is unclear

Brag document skeleton with standing headings

Headings decide what you notice. A skeleton with the same six or seven sections every year, such as goals, shipped work, collaboration and mentoring, learning, feedback received and outside work, prompts you to log the things reviews ask about rather than only the loudest project.

First tasks

  • Open last year's review form and note the sections it asks about
  • Draft six or seven standing headings with one line each
  • Paste this year's goals at the top of the document
  • Add one real entry under every heading

Make it yours.

Install Brag Document & Wins Log, then tell Aurum the date you're aiming for. It checks whether the plan fits the weeks you actually have.

Free · Mac (Apple silicon) and Windows · v1.0.0 · Other platforms

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