Weekly Notes

jimbo

Weekly reviews have been one of my most effective and important rituals and I'd like to add them to Forever Notes Journal framework. If my memory serves me right, they weren't included in the Journal because of limitations in Apple Notes.

I'm curious have other people added weekly notes into the Forever Notes framework?

I'm leaning towards:

A separate note for each weekly review
Manually linking weekly reviews to other weekly reviews through a forward and back in the header
Creating a Hub note for all weekly reviews that is linked to on the home page in the Journal section.

This is a little labor intensive but would work.

joaoalm

Probably Not

jimbo wouldn’t it be easier to name them coherently (yyyy.ww: year.week number) and tagged these notes with an exclusive tag?
From your ✱ Home, you could then just like to a Smart Folder.

Garbonzo

I use Sunday’s note for planning and reviewing the week.

Maniek

I use my todo app of choice for weekly review, where one task is to check my notes from last week, what brings me to idea to create Smart Folder with all notes that been created or edited for the last week. What do you think? Does it make any sense?

jimbo

Maniek Thanks for your insight. That would be helpful to facilitate the weekly review. However, I still need to integrate the journaling component into FNs.

jimbo

@"Garbonzo” - that’s an interesting idea.

Matthias

jimbo Hi Jimbo! Th reason why there are no weekly notes in Forever ✱ Notes is that weeks don’t align with the same days every year. So it’s not possible to link a day note with just one week note, as next year that day might be part of a different week.

That said, I think your idea of setting up weekly notes, a ✱ Week hub and a link on the ✱ Home note sound good.

Alternatively you could use URL scheme to link to a shortcut that opens the current week note. Kind of like the Today shortcut link on the day notes.

bramhubbell

I love this idea of creating a shortcut to go to the current week’s note. I set up weekly notes today and then created a shortcut. It works perfectly

Deeyaa

bramhubbell how did you setup the shortcut to open the current week?

jimbo

bramhubbell Bran - are you open to sharing your shortcut? I can only create very simple shortcuts - Jim

bramhubbell

Deeyaa

Here’s the shortcut. You first need to create 52 week notes to make it work

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/daf2e61f3dcc4b1c92428cf26a71f3ef

shokk

Perhaps something similar to what has been done with the Journaling, where we have 52 week notes, and the text for Week 49 can have a header that says "2024 Dec 1-7" on one line, with "2023 Dec 3-9" on another line. Each year's week is then collapsible to reduce clutter, and the week's entry can be as long as you need it to be. Not sure what the value of that would be year over year.

GAH

Forever Journal

I have been using the "forever journal" approach for a long time now and find that it fits in well with the Forever Notes approach. Think of it a a daily, or monthly time frame instead of a weekly time frame.

Each day I pull that days "date" out of my monthly note. So for today I pulled 01-December out of my note containing all of the days for December. Under 01-December I have all of my appointments, tasks and any notes for that specific day (Bullet Journal Style). 01-December is a link to a note >>01-December and each year I add that days journal entry to that note. This gives me a Forever Journal where I can see what journal entries I made for December 1st over the years.

Works for me and seems to fit into the Forever Notes approach concept.

Estela

GAH It is like a 5 year journal concept. I like it!

MahmoudFahiem

GAH could you share a screenshot or something to make it clearer?

bramhubbell

jimbo

You first need to create 52 week notes

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/daf2e61f3dcc4b1c92428cf26a71f3ef

GAH

Sure @MahmoudFahiem if someone can tell me how to link an image to a reply.

Matthias

GAH Please try again upload the images, it should work now.

GAH

Sure here are screen shots showing how a day would progress. (I am using January as an example)

In Bullet Journal style I pull today, January 1st from the Monthly Log.

✱ Monthly Log

![IMG_2027.jpeg](blob:https://forum.myforevernotes.com/d82d9090-57d4-4dd3-b366-39f444bb2db1)

Each day of the month is linked to that day's note. (Last screenshot)

I run my day from the ✱ Daily Note

![IMG_2028.jpeg](blob:https://forum.myforevernotes.com/b4e051b1-3104-40c4-8c7e-c0bc5b20068a)

Throughout the day and as a end of day process I go to that days note page " >> 01 January " and add any journal worthy mentions. Thus the forever journal.

![IMG_2025.jpeg](blob:https://forum.myforevernotes.com/4c74b363-fceb-4d56-9437-f5adf3264a37)

shokk

bramhubbell this is the same thing, but I've created the notes as such with links back and forth between the weeks, and uses the following shortcut:

douglangille

This discussion is really helpful. I took this thread and inspiration from this video: https://youtu.be/7pX_ja5w0V8?si=1ahvywQ9G3NfCzVx

I came up with a Weekly Planner setup to go with a Daily Journal. Early days, so it may or may not work.

The crux of it is that you setup your weeks as 12 week quarters, each with 3 x 4-week sprints. I pad the last sprint in each quarter with a 5th week to use as a planning/reset week. Every couple years there is a 53rd week so I just combined it with 52.

The shortcut above works, so long as you create the 52 week notes.