Daily standup template

Updated on October 28, 2026

The daily standup, common in agile teams, works when it is short: each person says what they did, what they will do and what is blocking them. Writing it in a shared note makes the conversation faster and lets anyone who missed it catch up on their own.

Week 46

Monday

Ana

Yesterday: reviewed the pricing page copy
Today: publish the page and test it on mobile
Blockers: none

Ben

Yesterday: fixed the form bug
Today: start the sales report
Blockers: no access to the sales dashboard

Open blockers

Sales dashboard access for Ben (Carla)

Tuesday

Ana

Yesterday:
Today:
Blockers:

How to use it

Create one note per week with "Use this template", inside a team folder (for example, team/standup/2026-w46).
Before the meeting, each person writes their three lines in the day’s block. It takes a minute.
In the meeting, instead of everyone repeating it all out loud, read it together and only talk about blockers.
Each blocker becomes a checkbox item under "Open blockers", with the name of whoever will solve it. Tick it when it is solved.

Tips

Agree on a 15-minute limit. Anything that needs longer becomes a separate conversation with only the people involved.
Write "Today" as something you can finish that day. "Work on the report" says little; "finish the sales part of the report" says what to expect tomorrow.
A blocker is not a complaint: it is something another person can solve. Write what you need and from whom.
Teams in different time zones can run the standup in writing only, with no meeting: everyone fills it in by 10 a.m.

Why one note per week

With all five days in the same note, you can see at a glance if someone has been stuck on the same point for days, or if Monday’s "today" still shows up on Thursday. That kind of signal gets lost when the standup is only spoken. At the end of the week, the note is also the starting point for the weekly status report: deliverables are already written down, day by day.

The note is open to anyone with the link. Write about the progress of the work, not customer data, passwords or confidential company information.