| name | weekly-review |
| description | Summarize the past week's daily notes, extracting key findings, links, action items, and potential atomic notes, and write the summary into the matching weekly note. |
Weekly Review
Purpose
Process a calendar week's daily notes to generate a summary that captures key insights, tracks action items, and identifies ideas worth developing into atomic notes. The summary is written into the ## Review section of that week's weekly note.
Instructions
1. Determine the target week
- Default to the last completed week (Monday–Sunday). If the user names a specific week or date, use that instead.
- Compute the weekly note name in
gggg-[W]ww format. Use the shell to stay accurate:
- Last completed week:
date -v-7d -v-mon +%G-W%V (e.g. 2026-W24)
- Current week:
date +%G-W%V
- The weekly note lives at
Weekly/<gggg-[W]ww>.md (e.g. Weekly/2026-W24.md).
- Compute the Monday–Sunday date range for that week (e.g.
date -v-7d -v-mon +%Y-%m-%d for the Monday, then add days).
2. Locate and read the week's daily notes
- Find daily notes in
Daily/YYYY/MM-Month/YYYY-MM-DD.md format for each of the 7 days.
- Read each note that exists, in chronological order. Skip days with no note.
3. Extract and summarize
For each daily note, identify:
| Category | What to look for |
|---|
| Key findings | Insights, learnings, realizations, decisions made |
| Relevant links | URLs, references, resources worth revisiting |
| Action items | Tasks mentioned, TODOs, follow-ups needed |
4. Identify emergent topics
Look for recurring themes or ideas that appeared multiple times across the week. These are candidates for atomic notes.
Signs of an emergent topic:
- Mentioned in more than one of the daily notes
- An insight that surprised or shifted thinking
- A connection between previously unrelated ideas
- Something worth remembering long-term
5. Write the review into the weekly note
The weekly note's ## Review section already contains three empty subsections (created from the template):
### Key Findings
-
### Potential Atomic Notes
-
### Action Items
- [ ]
Fill them in:
- Key Findings — summarized insights from the week, one bullet each. Reference the relevant
[[wikilinks]] inline rather than listing links separately — the source daily notes are already linked from the ## Days list, so a standalone link dump would just duplicate them.
- Potential Atomic Notes —
- **[Proposed title as insight]**: [why it deserves its own note].
- Action Items —
- [ ] task per outstanding follow-up.
Then write it to Weekly/<gggg-[W]ww>.md:
- If the weekly note exists: populate the three subsections under
## Review in place — replace the empty placeholder bullets with your content, and leave the rest of the note (Days, anything the user added) untouched. If the user has already written content under a subsection, append rather than overwrite.
- If the weekly note does not exist: create it from
Meta/Templates/Weekly Note Template.md. The template uses Templater syntax (<% %>), which only runs inside Obsidian — so render the equivalent content yourself: the note/weekly tag, a # Week ww, gggg heading, the date range, a ## Days list linking each day ([[YYYY-MM-DD|dddd, MMM D]]), and the ## Review section with the three subsections filled in.
6. Confirm and offer next steps
Report which weekly note was written to. Then ask the user if they'd like to:
- Create any of the suggested atomic notes
- Move action items into their Focus section or elsewhere
- Explore any topic in more depth
