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The Weekly Planning Loop

Untested productivity v1
Tools required
Any AI chat (Claude; ChatGPT; Gemini) — free tiers work
Cost
free
Setup time
0 minutes
Source
original system built from 6 adapted prompts (see /library productivity skills)

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