Run your weekly review in one prompt instead of one lost hour
The lesson
A weekly review fails when it becomes free-form journalling. Give the model a fixed template — shipped, slipped, learned, next — and feed it raw evidence: your calendar, your task list, your sent items. Ask it to name the one thing that must not slip again, and to propose next week's single non-negotiable per day.
Example
A Friday dump of 31 calendar entries and 46 open tasks returns four shipped items, three slips with a stated cause, and five dated blocks for next week.
Copy the prompt
You are my chief of staff running my weekly review. From the calendar entries and task list below, produce:
1. SHIPPED — what actually got finished, with the evidence line
2. SLIPPED — what did not, and the most likely cause (time, dependency, or avoidance)
3. PATTERN — one behaviour that repeated this week
4. NEXT WEEK — exactly one non-negotiable priority per weekday, with a realistic time block
Be blunt. Do not invent anything that is not in the input.
INPUT:
"""
{{paste calendar + task list}}
"""Takeaway
Reviews only pay off when they end in dated commitments. Make the last section of the prompt do that work.
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