Best PromptsWeekly Review and Reset
Process a week of notes, tasks, and calendar into what mattered, what slipped, what to drop, and three commitments for next week.
Run my weekly review from the raw material below. This week's notes, tasks, messages, and calendar: """ [PASTE EVERYTHING: TASK LIST WITH STATUS, CALENDAR, MEETING NOTES, LOOSE NOTES. MESSY IS BETTER THAN CURATED.] """ My current goals and their deadlines: [THE 2-4 THINGS THAT MATTER THIS QUARTER] Hours I actually have available next week: [BE REALISTIC, ACCOUNTING FOR MEETINGS] Produce: 1. **What actually moved.** The things that advanced a stated goal, with the evidence from my material. Separate these from things that merely happened. A busy week and a productive week look identical in a calendar. 2. **Where the time went.** Estimate the split across my goals, other people's priorities, maintenance, and unplanned interruptions, based on the calendar and notes. Name the largest gap between where I said my priorities were and where the hours went. 3. **Open loops.** Everything unfinished, waiting on someone else, or committed to in a message and never captured as a task. Group as: mine to do, waiting on someone (with who and since when), and needs a decision from me. The waiting-on list is usually the one that has gone stale. 4. **Drop candidates.** 3-5 things to stop, decline, or let go, each with what happens if I do. Include at least one thing I am doing well that still does not serve my goals, since those are the hardest to see. 5. **Next week.** Exactly three commitments tied to my goals, each with the hours it needs and the day it will happen, fitted inside the hours I actually have. If my open loops plus these three exceed the available time, say so and tell me what has to move. 6. **One question.** The thing my notes suggest I have been avoiding deciding. Rules: work only from what I pasted. Where the material is ambiguous about whether something finished, ask rather than assuming it did. Be direct about patterns you see repeating across the week, including the unflattering ones.
How to use
Section 2 is the uncomfortable one and the reason to run this: the gap between stated priorities and actual calendar is invisible from inside the week and obvious from outside it. Paste raw material rather than a tidy summary, because the summary you would write has already smoothed over the interruptions that explain the gap. Capping next week at three commitments is a constraint, not a suggestion; a list of nine is a list of zero.
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