Free project template
GTD weekly review checklist with every task back on the list when it's due
The Getting Things Done weekly review as one repeating task: get clear, get current, look ahead.
- 15 tasks
- Opens as a list
- Repeats on its own
Weekly review
- Weekly reviewEvery Friday 15:00High
- Get clear
- Collect loose papers, receipts and notes into one place
- Empty your inboxes: email, chat, notes app
- Write down anything on your mind as a task
- Get current
- Go through next actions and tick off what is done
- Look at last week's calendar for loose ends
- Look at the next two weeks of calendar
- Check the waiting-for list and chase what is late
- Make sure every active project has a next action
- Look ahead
- Read the someday and maybe list
- Move anything you now want to do into a project
- Pick next week's three most important outcomes
About this template
In the Getting Things Done method, the weekly review is the habit that keeps your lists trustworthy. Skip it for a few weeks and the lists fill with stale tasks you stop believing.
This is one task that repeats every Friday, with the review steps as sub-tasks in three groups. It takes about an hour.
Tips from the template
- Move it to a time you are unlikely to be interrupted.
- Work through the steps in order.
- If you only have 20 minutes, do the first group.
How to use it in ActivityTracker
- 1Open Tasks and choose Templates.
- 2Find Weekly review and open it. You see every section and task before anything is added.
- 3Check the name the new project gets, and change it if you like.
- 4Press Use template. Rename the project, then work down the list.
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Questions
Run it with the dates filled in.
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