Wrap up one week and plan the following one

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# Do a weekly review in about 20 minutes with an assistant

Job: [Wrap up one week and plan the following one](https://aiagents.org/canai/weekly-review-in-20-minutes-brinn)

## Need

- AI agent

## Steps

1. Gather last week's calendar, tasks, fired reminders and unprocessed notes, then have the assistant give a plain recap of finished work and slipped items, calling out anything moved again and again.
2. Sort every unfinished item into do this week, push to a set date, hand to someone, or delete; let the assistant suggest a call for each and overrule it freely.
3. Have the assistant flag overloaded days, meetings with no gap and long free stretches next week, then choose up to three outcomes and give each a calendar slot.
4. Turn each decision into a reminder that will interrupt you in time: deadlines two days early, follow-ups on a named date, deferred items at the next review.
5. Optionally write one sentence about what to do differently next week.
6. Optional: Brinn's one-prompt version of the whole review is listed separately in our prompts.
7. Note: Our own-words summary of Brinn's five steps, in its order; the full guide and example prompts are at the source link.

## Credit

Method author Brinn (article by David Chen)
Source: https://www.brinn.app/blogs/ai-weekly-review-template