What’s in a Weekly Review

My weekly review is based off the GTD weekly review. Think of it as being more intentional about what you are spending your time on and as a catch-all for todos that you can’t immediately do.

Purpose of the weekly review:

  • Review what you have done this week
  • Plan for what you need to do next week

How this fits into my life: The daily note → weekly note → monthly review process:

  1. Everyday: Take notes in your daily note everyday and check your weekly note (for this week) because it fetches the notes from your last weekly review on what you need to get done this week.
  2. End of the Week (Friday or Sunday): Do your weekly review (in this week’s weekly note) and this means checking what you have done this week, reflecting on it, collecting todos that you want to finish doing, and checking what needs to be done for next week. Write summaries for this week based on the daily log rollups. Plan what you need to do for next week in terms of tasks and events. Timeblock in your calendar.
  3. End of the Month (Last week of the month): Do a monthly review for the month that has passed. This is more of like overarching goals you want to achieve e.g. I want to focus on Health this month (I usually pick from a prioritized list from my annual reflections), what you have done this month (rolls up from weekly summaries → monthly summaries) and check your monthly trigger list (GTD concept - list of things you might want to do things for).

Why you might want this:

  • Feels good. It relieves the mental burden of constantly planning what to do and worrying that you are missing something.
  • It helps you work towards your goals as you are being intentional with how you spend your time. See calendar priority alignment
  • Track your feelings and come to insights about what affects your productivity and mood

Video

I have a video on this at Obsidian Workflow: Speed up your Weekly Review - YouTube that goes through “how I do the weekly review” in detail.

TODO stuff below

Templates Explained

The template system - just like how daily note connects to weekly note

do a block for each type of code block

Little things to pay attention to

  • square brackets
  • the templater date thing (cannot open when in another week…)

Extra

  • vid-things I have tried for daily note
  • inspiration - mike schmitz’s personal retreat
  • pinterest mood board - hp fanfic: well groomed mind