Sunday-morning for me is the perfect time to write my Weekly Notes in Obsidian. In my private weekly notes I summarise the previous week. I do this based on browser-bookmarks to open calendars and lists, history in apps and things I’ve written myself. My Weekly Note template has these headings and input:

  • How was your week? A free-writing area to jot down some thoughts on the previous week. It can be personal, professional, hobby, whatever pops up when I see this question.
  • Work. I look back at the workweek in bulletpoints. Based on my work-calendar in Google Workspace
  • Home. A look-back to the week at home. Based on the familycalendar in Fastmail
  • Reading. This is for the audio/e-/paper books I read. I try to read 30 minutes a day. Or listen to an audiobook for 30 minutes. I do this because I fell into this nice calculation by Tim Urban. Which is true, because he’s Tim Urban.
  • Watching. I use my Watch History from Youtube and Netflix to see what I’ve watched over the last week. I add whatever I find worth keeping to the list. I sometimes add a photo from my photoroll in MacOS.
  • Articles. This is something I am working on. Right now I use MacOS/iOS Shortcut to add interesting articles to a drafts in Drafts. Every sunday, I just cut and paste the draft in this note. Pretty easy. The list is something between “that was interesting to look back to” and “I need to read this” and “I must not forget to see if I want to read this”. I would love to add Starred Articles from my feedreader, but I haven’t figured out how to do this. I also try to get back in the habit of using Readwise Reader. But yeah… it’s a moving target, this reading-habit… When I want to see all the articles from the previous weeks, I have this dataview on a separate page. This creates a table with all my linked articles from the weeknotes.
  • Listening. This is a fun one. I check my Last.FM stats every week and find a few of the nice tracks I listened to or want to listen again. Right now I try to listen to more new alternative music that’s coming out, instead of staying on repeat in the nineties…
  • Updated files in my vault. This dataview shows a table of the new and updated files in my Obsidian vault in the last 7 days. It also gives me a look back on what I worked on or ideas I dropped in the vault.

Every Sunday I start a template that opens this Weeknote and I open the previous week. This gives me nice overview of where I was and where I am now. My next step is to take a look back every month to these week notes and see where and how I can move forward.