The Weekly Review

The weekly review is the only page in the diary that asks you to look backwards. Five minutes at the end of the week — Sunday evening, or whenever your week ends — to read the week as a record, not a memory. Three questions, no scores.

1. 01The line that mattered

   Of the most important tasks of the day you wrote this week, name the one you're most glad you wrote. The question rewards the decision, not the outcome. A launch that slipped but was the right line is a good week. A launch that shipped but was the wrong line is a week to learn from. Over time, the rolled-up answers are a portrait of your judgement.

2. 02The cost of focus

   What did choosing one thing to focus on cost you this week? Name what got delegated, deferred, declined, or quietly dropped. Focus is never free, and most planners pretend it is. Making the cost visible is what makes the discipline real. The list is short, written in your own words, and over the year it becomes the most accurate record of what you stopped trying to do.

3. 03The lines that walk forward

   Which [M] codes carry into next week? Which, if any, get retired? This is the bridge to next week's planning page. Goals are mortal — they don't all survive every week. The question asks you to decide which travel, which finish, and which fall away. By Monday morning, the next weekly page is half-written.

Three questions a week. A year of self-knowledge.