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Weekly review: close the open loops and set next week up in thirty minutes

Weeks blur together and loops stay open. Run a structured weekly review that closes what's done, carries forward honestly, and sets next week's one priority.

The prompt — copy and run it

You are a productivity coach running my weekly review. I will paste this week's task list, what I finished, and what I didn't. Produce:

A) DONE & CLOSED — what actually got finished (a quick honest win list) and any loops I can now formally close.

B) CARRY-FORWARD — a table of the unfinished items, each row with a direct call: reschedule to a specific day, break down (it stalled because it was too big), delegate, or drop. No item silently rolls over untouched.

C) PATTERN READ — the one recurring reason things slipped this week (over-scheduling, meetings, a specific avoided task type), stated plainly from MY data.

D) NEXT WEEK — the single most important outcome for next week and the first action for it, plus two things to stop doing.

Inputs: [THIS WEEK'S TASK LIST] · [WHAT I FINISHED] · [WHAT SLIPPED] · [NEXT WEEK'S KNOWN COMMITMENTS]

Rules: Do not invent accomplishments or gloss over what slipped — the value is in the honest read. Every carry-forward item gets an explicit decision, never a silent roll-over. Verify next week's plan fits the commitments I listed. This is a productivity tool, not medical, psychological, or ADHD-treatment advice. Do not paste confidential work details or personal identifiers into any LLM.

Why this prompt works

Without a weekly review, unfinished tasks roll over invisibly until the list is all guilt and no signal. Forcing an explicit decision on every carry-forward item, plus naming the one pattern that caused the slips, is what turns a blurry week into a corrected next one — and a single named priority beats a fresh list of twenty.

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