Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Summarize the past week's daily entries into a weekly review note.

Location

All private notes live in content/private/ with flat structure (no subfolders).

Date Format

• Weekly reviews: YYYY-Www.md (ISO week number)
• Example: 2024-W02.md for week 2 of 2024

Phase 1: Determine Week Boundaries

Calculate the current ISO week:

• Week starts Monday, ends Sunday
• Use ISO 8601 week numbering

Find date range for the week being reviewed (default: current week).

Phase 2: Gather Daily Notes

2.1 Find Daily Notes

Search for all daily notes in the week's date range:

Glob: content/private/YYYY-MM-DD.md

Filter to notes where date falls within the week.

2.2 Load Content

Read each daily note found and extract:

• Morning Thoughts
• Done Today items
• Learnings
• Links Captured

2.3 Present Summary

Display to user:

• Number of daily entries found (e.g., "Found 5 of 7 days")
• Key themes identified
• Most linked public notes

Phase 3: Generate Weekly Summary

3.1 Ask for User Input

question: "What were the main themes this week?"
header: "Themes"
options:
  - label: "Auto-generate"
    description: "Identify themes from daily entries"
  - label: "Manual"
    description: "I'll describe the themes"

If user chooses manual, gather their input.

3.2 Create Weekly Note

Frontmatter:

---
title: "Week {N}, {YYYY}"
type: weekly
week: YYYY-Www
date: { week end date YYYY-MM-DD }
dailies:
  - "[[YYYY-MM-DD]]"
  - "[[YYYY-MM-DD]]"
private: true
---

Body structure:

## Week Summary

{user themes or auto-generated summary}

## Key Events

- {aggregated from Done Today sections}

## Learnings

- {consolidated from daily Learnings sections}

## Public Notes Created

- [[note-1]] - {brief context}
- [[note-2]] - {brief context}

3.3 Review with User

Present the generated weekly review:

question: "Does this weekly summary look good?"
header: "Review"
options:
  - label: "Save"
    description: "Create the weekly review file"
  - label: "Edit"
    description: "Make changes before saving"

Phase 4: Save Weekly Review

Save to content/private/{YYYY-Www}.md.

Confirm with:

• File path
• Number of days covered
• Key themes captured

Template Reference

Full weekly review template:

---
title: "Week N, YYYY"
type: weekly
week: YYYY-Www
date: YYYY-MM-DD
dailies:
  - "[[2024-01-08]]"
  - "[[2024-01-09]]"
  - "[[2024-01-10]]"
  - "[[2024-01-11]]"
  - "[[2024-01-12]]"
private: true
---

## Week Summary

High-level themes and patterns from the week.

## Key Events

- Monday: ...
- Tuesday: ...
- Notable accomplishment

## Learnings

- Insight 1 from [[2024-01-08]]
- Insight 2 from [[2024-01-10]]

## Public Notes Created

- [[book-title]] - Finished reading and captured notes
- [[podcast-episode]] - Great episode on X topic

Quality Checklist

Before saving:

• Filename matches YYYY-Www.md format (w lowercase)
• Frontmatter has type: weekly and private: true
• Week number in title and frontmatter match
• dailies array lists all daily notes included
• Summary synthesizes themes, not just lists
• Wiki-links use correct [[slug]] format

Edge Cases