A weekly reflection note using one card prompt

selamibababa

Hi everyone,

I have been experimenting with a simple weekly reflection note and I am trying to work out where it should sit inside the Forever Notes structure.

At the beginning of each week, I choose one general theme and write a few questions underneath it. At the end of the week, I return to the same note and add a short review.

Sometimes I use a tarot card to choose the theme. I am not using it to predict the week. I just find that the image and the usual meaning of a card can lead to useful questions.

For example, the Seven of Pentacles is usually connected with patience, effort and waiting for results.

My note might include:

What am I spending the most time on right now?
Is the effort starting to produce a result?
Am I being patient, or am I avoiding a decision?
Am I continuing something only because I have already invested time in it?
What should I stop or change next week?

I maintain Deckaura and used my own page about the Seven of Pentacles meaning when preparing the questions. The page is mine. I am sharing it only to show where the weekly theme came from.

How would you organize this in Forever Notes?

I am currently considering:

one note for each week;
a reusable weekly reflection template;
a single #weeklyreflection tag;
links from the monthly note to each weekly entry;
one Reflection Hub containing links to all previous entries.

I would like to review the notes after a few months without creating a separate tag for every card or theme.

Has anyone built a similar weekly review or recurring prompt system?

Shaun

My thoughts on it:

do a template, so it’s faster inputting week to week.
do the tag you suggested.
~~instead~~ of the Hub, requiring you to maintain the links, create a collection (Smart Folder of that tag). Then whenever you want to review? It’s all right there and you don’t have to maintain a hub.

I had hubs for - each of my three jobs (two are very part time), a nonprofit board i volunteer at, family, and finance and an archive hub. I spent a lot of time maintaining and linking them which wore thin after a few months. I have the home page now which is one long hub and my finance hub. At first? I really loved the Hub concept (still do) but having to maintain them was not fun for me. I’m sure there’s a better to do that.