start-work-week

# Start Work Week (Monday morning, ~15 min) You are running the user's Monday work-week startup. This combines a life check-in, weekend catch-up, week planning, and daily startup. Take it at a measured pace — Mondays set the tone. --- ## Step 1: Daily note setup Read today's daily note. `daily:read` creates it from the configured template if it doesn't already exist — do NOT call `obsidian create` for the daily note. ``` obsidian daily:read vault="{{VAULT_NAME}}" ``` Read Friday's and weekend daily notes for continuity. Add a `## Week Ahead` section dynamically to today's note (Monday-only — not in the template). --- ## Step 2: Morning check-in Same 3 prompts → `## Morning State`. Update `energy` and `mood` frontmatter. - "How are you feeling right now?" - "What feels most alive for you right now?" - "What would make today feel good?" --- ## Step 3: Weekend catch-up Ask: "What did you get done over the weekend?" This catches accomplishments from personal days, especially if `/end-personal-day` wasn't run. Cross-reference with weekend daily notes (Log, Reflection sections, `## Today's Options`, `## Done Today`). Advance the system: - Mark completed project actions, move to `## Completed` sections. - Update project context where relevant. - Add any new follow-up actions surfaced. - If nothing project-related happened, skip gracefully — weekends don't need to be productive. --- ## Step 4: Week Ahead check-in 4 Monday-specific life check-in questions. Write responses to `## Week Ahead` in today's note: - "How am I feeling right now?" (deeper — about overall life state, not just this moment) - "What feels most alive for me right now?" - "Where am I feeling the most friction going into this week?" - "What can I do to make it a good week?" **Pattern weather**: Before the check-in questions, scan last week's daily note Observations sections for any shadow patterns that were noted. If a pattern appeared across multiple days, share briefly: "Last week I noticed [pattern] showing up around [domain] — worth keeping an eye on, or has something shifted?" This is conversational context, not excavation. If no patterns were noted, skip silently. --- ## Step 5: Calendar scan — full week Read Mon-Fri events using `mcp__apple-events__calendar_events`. Identify: - Meeting-heavy days vs. deep-work days - Prep needs for upcoming events - Personal commitments during work hours - Schedule conflicts to flag Summarize the week's shape. Also read the next 60 days of calendar events (`startDate`: next Monday, `endDate`: today + 60 days) and Apple Reminders (`mcp__apple-events__reminders_tasks`, incomplete with due dates). These feed the `## Upcoming` horizon overview in Step 11. The full week scan above is for conversational context (meeting-heavy days, deep work blocks). `## Upcoming` captures only critical items across two months. --- ## Step 6: Rule of 3 recap Surface the weekly outcomes from Friday's deep-review (if available — check Friday's daily note or recent notes for Rule of 3). Ask: "Still feel right, or want to adjust?" --- ## Step 7: Day-specific routines Read `[[Day-Specific Routines]]`. Filter for Monday + `## Daily`. Present applicable items. These will be converted to checkboxes and written to `## Routines` in today's daily note during Step 11. --- ## Step 8: Inbox overview Gather counts from all three inboxes: - **Drafts inbox**: `mcp__drafts__drafts_inbox` — count items - **Obsidian inbox**: `obsidian search query="path:Inbox/" vault="{{VAULT_NAME}}"` — count results - **Unread email**: `mcp__mail__get_emails` (unread, limit 1) — get unread count Report: "X Drafts, Y inbox notes, Z unread emails. Full processing happens during deep review." **Workbench**: Count files in `Workbench/` (`obsidian search query="path:Workbench/" vault="{{VAULT_NAME}}"`). Report: "X workbench items active" (add "Y ready to graduate" if any have `status: ready`). Information-only — no processing. Do NOT process inboxes here — the relevance pass happens in Step 11 after choices are confirmed. --- ## Step 9: Build action menu Same as start-workday but with week-level awareness. Consider: - Which Rule of 3 outcomes need action today? - Front-load important work early in the week - Monday energy (may be lower — adjust accordingly) - ~5-8 options grouped by area, weighted by enjoyable usefulness Include stance awareness checks (grounded in `shadow-awareness` rule — Tier 1 only): - *Lots of planning, little execution* → "What's the very next physical action?" - *Grinding through tasks, ignoring meaningful work* → Surface something important and enjoyable - *Paralysis or "nothing matters"* → Offer one small, concrete, useful thing - *Refining options instead of choosing* → "These are good enough — which one first?" One observation max. Check off-switch criteria before surfacing. --- ## Step 10: Carried forward from Friday Check Friday's daily note `## Today's Options` for undone items (still `- [ ]`, not in `## Done Today`). Ask: "Still relevant?" --- ## Step 11: Write daily note dashboard + Intentions Write the daily-note dashboard per the shared write-spec in `.claude/shared/daily-startup-dashboard.md`, with these parameters: - **Today's Options** — groups Work / Personal / Quick; the items confirmed in Step 9; 5-8 options weighted by week-level awareness (Rule of 3 outcomes, front-loaded priorities). - **Routines** — Monday + Daily items from Step 7. - **Upcoming** — all critical items; sources are the Step 5 60-day scan and milestones spotted in Step 9. (Full week shape was presented conversationally in Step 5; this is the two-month critical-items overview, not today's schedule.) - **Intentions** — informed by the Week Ahead responses (Step 4) and Rule of 3 (Step 6). - **Inbox relevance pass** — include unread email. --- ## Step 12: Yesterday's observations Write to Sunday's (or Friday's) daily note if it exists without `## Observations`. Include defense pattern tracking at Tier 2 if applicable — same protocol as start-workday Step 10 (observation + capacity evidence; note contradictions for the Defense Pattern Living Record). --- ## Step 13: Summary Present: - Week overview (calendar shape, Rule of 3 outcomes) - Today's plan (action menu, calendar) - Any follow-ups or attention items Commit all vault changes.