September 28, 2021

Weekly Work Review

Every Friday at 4pm, I have a 42min meeting with a link to an Obsidian file. The file contains the following template:

• Emails Sorted
• Review Folder 1 Projects
• Next Week Calendar
• Things Work Tasks
• Sort Download Files Folder Tidy.app

Each has a link that makes it actionable on the Mac¹. The intent of each:

• Email Sorted: my passive aggressive version of InboxZero. It allows me to reach a clean inbox, but allows a lot of email snoozing.
• Review Folder 1 Projects: opens the folder, and I try to have no more than 5 folders there. Inactive’s or done projects are moved to 4 Archive.
• Next Week Calendar: opens Fantastical. I try to move around meetings from a high-level view, and make block some focus time.
• Things Work Tasks: although most of my tasks are in Obsidian, there’s still items that will fall in my Things work area.
• Sort Download Files: Use Folder Tidy to sort the Download folder. Afterwards I’ll usually rescue some files to either add to a project above or group into a folder and send to 4 Archive or to a 2 Areas sub-folder.

This check list is linked at the end of my weekly notes with the name Weekly Review 2021w38.md for historical reasons.

---

1. Mostly with the help of Hook.↩︎

---

Previous post

Debugging as a Project Stage In a typical meeting where the team has neglected QA and is flying head-first into a release wall, I would throw the cliche at them: Measure twice

Next post

Stephen Hackett on the New iPad mini Stephen Hackett, on 512pixels.net: Its small size — and lack of a first-party keyboard case — means that I don’t feel any tension about not using