week note

This article is a stub. You can help the IndieWeb wiki by expanding it.

A week note (AKA weekly notes, weekly summary, weekly roundup, or week in review) is a post (usually a note) published at the end of the week that summarizes that week’s goals, accomplishments, events, posts, or other week-specific content the author wishes to share, similar to a monthly recap, yet for a week, and typically manually written.

Why

Weeknotes are a good way to reflect on what you have accomplished in the last week
In the future you can look back and see a summary of what happened that week
Over time you can see how much you have done week to week
You can see how you have evolved over time while reflecting on old notes

How to

How to post

The most common way to share weeknotes is to write a blog post sharing your notes on what happened in your life in the previous week. Many weeknotes use bullet points to communicate notes as opposed to long-form prose, although there are community members that write long-form content in their weeknotes.

Weeknote Prompts

Here are a few things you could talk about in your weeknotes:

What you did with your personal website
What you learned
What media (books, TV shows, movies, etc.) you consumed
Where you travelled
What you ate
How your work went
Something interesting that happened to you

You can share as little or as much as you want in a weeknote. Weeknotes do not have to include personal information.

IndieWeb Examples

Jamie Tanna

Jamie Tanna has been posting weeknotes since 2020-01-05

https://www.jvt.me/series/week-notes/

gRegor

gRegor Morrill posted a couple times starting on 2020-01-18 but never stuck with it, partly due to pandemic interruptions. E.g.:

gRegor calls them "Weekly Roundup" posts

Rowan Manning

Rowan Manning writes weeknotes on his rowanmanning.com blog since 2020-11-01

https://rowanmanning.com/weeknotes/

Barry Frost

Barry Frost writes weeknotes 2021-08-29

https://barryfrost.com/categories/weeknotes/

Mark Sutherland

Mark Sutherland has been writing weeknotes since 2022-01-09

https://marksuth.dev/posts

Mark calls them "Weekly Notes"

...

Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Previous Examples

Sonnie

https://www.sonniesedge.net/posts/week-note-01 was Week Note 1, now (2022-05) appears offline (domain parked)

Silo Examples

Swarm

Swarm has “The Weekly Swarm” which appears to be only accessible/viewable in their iOS app, and has excerpts or summaries of your friends’s checkins especially photos in various sections such as:

🌎 On the road with 5 people (unsure how chosen) with their "top" checkin/photo and a ( See where he/she went ) button to see more of their checkins.
🎉 Movies, concerts, and more with ~3 people (unsure how chosen) with their "top" entertainment related checkin/photo, and potentially a ( Check showtimes in Foursquare button for movies seen by more than one of your friends
🔥 Hot right now with ~3 people (unsure how chosen) with their "top" checkin/photo
🌟 Weekend adventures with ~3 people (unsure how chosen) with their "top" weekend-related checkin/photo
💰 Most coins earned with the top 3 points earning checkins across your friends (possibly more than one checkin per friend)
👑 New Mayorships with ~3 people (unsure how chosen) with their "top" checkin/photo that earned a mayorship
😭 Mayorships lost with ~3 people (unsure how chosen) with their "top" venue that they lost the Mayorship of and after how many days

Brainstorming

capjamesg tried to write weeknotes but found it hard to think about what to include. James is revisiting the weeknote concept as of May 2022.

Variations

Alternative names for week notes:

Weekly Roundup
Weekly Notes
Week in Review

There are also different cadences:

Why