A Weekly Review Template That Closes Open Loops
By myhacks editorial team · Method and sources reviewed 27 August 2026.
Quick Answer
A useful weekly review has four moves: clear what accumulated, learn from what happened, reconnect projects to outcomes, and choose the few priorities worth protecting next.
The review is a reset, not a performance report. The official GTD checklist emphasizes getting clear, current and creative. This myhacks adaptation adds an explicit link from outcomes to projects and ends with three Big Stones for the next week.
Key Points
- Capture open loops before choosing new work.
- Make every active project expose a concrete next action.
- Remove or pause stale commitments; a review is partly subtraction.
- Protect no more than three weekly Big Stones on the calendar.
How to Implement
- 1Set a 20-minute timer and empty quick capture, notes and loose tabs.
- 2Scan the previous and upcoming calendar for promises and follow-ups.
- 3Review active goals and projects; rewrite vague finish lines.
- 4Choose three observable outcomes for the next seven days.
- 5Calendar the first useful action for each outcome and write one recovery plan.
Pro Tip
End with “Next week will count if…” If the sentence needs five clauses, the plan is still too crowded.
Related Content
Sources
- GTD Weekly Review checklist — Getting Things Done
- Implementation intentions and goal achievement — Advances in Experimental Social Psychology
Sources support the specific research claims above. The myhacks workflow is an editorial synthesis, not a validated clinical protocol.