---
name: The Weekly Planning Loop
category: productivity
tools_required: [Any AI chat (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini) — free tiers work]
cost: free
time_to_set_up: 0 minutes
version: 1.0
source: original system built from 6 adapted prompts (see /library productivity skills)
tested: no
---

# The Weekly Planning Loop

## What it does
Six prompts chained into one repeating weekly system: plan the week, run each day, capture everything, review honestly, adjust. The loop closes — each step feeds the next, and the system improves itself weekly.

## What you need
Any AI chat app and the 6 productivity skills from the library. No subscriptions, no setup.

## Setup (one time)
None. Optionally save the 6 prompts somewhere you can paste from fast (notes app, or as saved snippets).

## The workflow (weekly rhythm)

**Sunday evening — 10 min**
1. Honest Weekly Review (on the week that just ended)
2. Habit & Energy Check-in
3. Weekly Reset — feed it what the review told you

**Every morning — 5 min**
4. Brain Dump Sorter (start the session with Session Task Tracker active)
5. Realistic Day Planner — feed it the sorted "today" list

**Every evening — 1 min**
6. Say "wrap up" — the Session Task Tracker hands you tomorrow's starting list

That's the whole loop: the tracker feeds the dump, the dump feeds the day, the days feed the review, the review feeds next week's plan.

## Maintenance habits
- The Sunday session is the keystone — if you only keep one piece, keep that
- Monthly: paste your 4 weekly reviews back in and ask for the meta-pattern
- When the loop breaks (it will), restart with just the morning dump — smallest piece first

## What we stripped
The source framed each prompt as a standalone life-fix ("this single prompt turns chaos into a plan in under a minute"). Individually they're fine; the actual value is the loop — no single prompt improves anything if there's no review feeding the next plan. We also removed the implied promise that organizing tasks fixes overwhelm; the habit/energy check exists precisely because it often doesn't.