Weekly Review Writer is a free prompt. Dump the week: tickets, notes, half-finished thoughts. Get a review with three bets for next week and the work to drop.
It is not always the right tool. Here is when something else wins, and when it does not.
Dedicated tool
A Notion or Obsidian weekly review template
Pick it if
You like filling in the same headings every week.
Pick Weekly Review Writer if
You have a mess to dump and want it sorted into moved, waited, three bets, and a drop list.
By hand
Journaling it yourself
Pick it if
The writing is the point for you.
Pick Weekly Review Writer if
You keep skipping the review because the blank page is the hard part.
0:08What actually shippedLogin on staging, pricing table render, stripe package installed. Plan change is still a stub. PayPal left alone on purpose.
0:16What is brokenWebhook 400, missing signature check, BillingForm customerId null, receipt email not wired. Ranked by what blocks the rest.
0:24Tomorrow's first promptA paste-ready prompt that starts at the webhook 400, forbids touching PayPal, and asks for a signature check plus a failing test.
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0:00Five messagesA contract redline, a newsletter, a date question, an unpaid invoice, and a lunch with no date.
0:08Reply todayTwo slots: yes on section 4, and the invoice is the one that is already late. The date question needs one sentence.
0:16The other pilesNewsletter goes to archive. Lunch waits until it has a date. The date question is a reply, not a meeting.
0:24The sentenceTo Alex: 'Section 4 is yes. Sending before noon.' Nothing else gets a paragraph.
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Questions
What are the alternatives to Weekly Review Writer?
A Notion or Obsidian weekly review template (dedicated tool); Journaling it yourself (by hand). On One Agent a Day, Session Handoff, Inbox Triage Desk do a similar job.
When is A Notion or Obsidian weekly review template better than Weekly Review Writer?
A Notion or Obsidian weekly review template is the better pick when you like filling in the same headings every week. Weekly Review Writer is the better pick when you have a mess to dump and want it sorted into moved, waited, three bets, and a drop list.
When is journaling it yourself better than Weekly Review Writer?
Journaling it yourself is the better pick when the writing is the point for you. Weekly Review Writer is the better pick when you keep skipping the review because the blank page is the hard part.
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