Weekly work review checklist
Thirty minutes, same slot every week. The point is not tidiness — it is that Monday starts from a decision you already made rather than from an inbox.
25 items
Makes your own editable copy. No account needed.
The items
- Close the week
- Empty the inbox to zero or to a labelled pile
- Reread your sent messages for things you promisedThis is where the forgotten commitments actually live — not in your task list.
- Scan your notes for actions you wrote and never moved
- Check chat mentions from the week
- Close what is done, honestly
- Look at what happened
- What actually moved this week?
- What did not, and why?
- What is now blocked, and on whom?
- What took much longer than you thought?
- One thing worth telling your manager
- Plan next week
- Look at the calendar before writing any list
- Pick the three things that must happen
- Block time for the biggest one, first
- Decline or shorten one meeting
- Note what you need from other people, and ask today
- Check nothing is due Monday that you have not started
- Tidy the edges
- Expenses and receipts
- Timesheets, if you keep them
- Files off the desktop
- Book the holiday you keep meaning to book
- Shut the laptop at the end, deliberately
Makes your own editable copy. No account needed.
Questions people ask
- When should I do a weekly review?
- Friday afternoon, in a slot you book like a meeting. Monday morning works too, but then the weekend is spent carrying the unfinished list around.
- How long should it take?
- Thirty minutes once it is a habit. The first two take an hour because there is a backlog of half-promises to write down.