Over the last year or so I've started a lot of projects of various sizes. Some I've seen through to their natural conclusion, while others are perpetually ongoing. Since I'm just one person, it's important that for any project that's not "complete" I'm able to keep track of where things stand so that I can pick back up again later should I have to pause the project for some reason.
There's definitely already options out there for software to do this, but I didn't find any that I really liked. I wanted something lightweight and self hosted that I could deploy easily and get up and running fairly quick, but that had a sufficient set of features that I could easily track my projects.
Coming from an enterprise software background, I am well familiar with these kinds of tools... so I figured I'd just build my own lightweight one that has exactly what I need and want. This way I can also integrate some of my other projects with it (like Omega CodeSec).
QuickSilo is born
QuickSilo is my solution. It's an issue tracking system designed to track work items (features, ideas, bugs) through their normal work flow. It lets me capture requirements, relevant screenshots or logs or attachments, and anything else I need to describe a work item that needs to be done... and save it for later reference. I can see the work that was completed, I can see the work that's still todo, and I can see the work that's currently in flight. As long as I keep it updated accurately it gives me everything I need to be able to pause a project and successfully come back to it later and have the context needed to pick it back up.
I've been using it with SpectraMesh and it's been incredibly helpful at organizing and tracking the work.
Features
- Multiple Project support - track all of your individual projects
- Milestones, Stories, Bugs, and Ideas - all of the issue types that are needed to track work
- Attachments - attach photos, logs, or other files that help describe the work to be done
- API Keys - generate API keys for automation and integrations
- Integration with Omega CodeSec - Raise bug tickets directly from within Omega Codesec and have them appear in the correct project in QuickSilo
- Tags - leverage tags to slice work however it makes sense
- Filters / Search - filtering and search make it simple to find the exact work item you're looking for
- Dashboards - main dashboard shows basic stats and recent activity, project dashboards show work in flight
- Activity log - shows a running log of work done on a particular work item