Hi All. I have been doing daily notes in my own weird format for over six months now, but each time I try and sit down and make a weekly template (or monthly) I always get stuck trying to work out what to aggregate and how to display it.
So, its time for the community to flex on me. Post your weekly and monthly notes that you are proud of. I dont care about the code so much, I just want to see pretty pictures of what you have created.
Thanks in advance.
I stopped using daily notes and work directly in my weekly notes and the themed logs they serve as hubs for (most of which are yearly with weekly headings). The pictures arenât pretty because I havenât done anything fancy.
At the top I have navigation links, a line specifying the days of the year/week/month, and then a plain custom callout for a little something fun from the week (here a poem but sometimes a photo, a fortune from a fortune cookie, etc.)
Below that I have a series of headings for life areas and other things that I log. I donât want to show an actual note but hereâs the outline (some of them should logically be subheadings but I found that oddly hard to scan, not that this is great either).
Under each heading (except 0.Quick which is just a scratch pad) is a bullet list summary followed by a link to the full log. Most sections have a list item for each entry; Health, Werk, and Media are more condensed (and the logs for Werk and Media just embed the weekly log sections from the note for each project or work). Either way, I add or modify the summary when I write the entry itself, so I donât have to do it later. Hereâs the current Werk section:
(Most sections other than Werk and Media wonât have all those links â theyâll just have text, like âWashed the windows.â).
I have a template that I run on Monday which makes a weekly note that collates the daily notes of that week. I use this at the end of the week to write up a week notes posting for my blog.
I have a template that is my âweekly programâ that I fill out at the start of the week, to mention/list things that are important in the coming week. It links to the corresponding day logs.
I have a âmonth mapâ I make at the beginning of the month, with what is relevant in the coming weeks, what will become urgent if I donât pay attention to it etc. I link those to the relevant week programs.
The preformatted text corresponds to commands in the âbuttonsâ plug-in. I prefer to add buttons because I may create a weekly note before I do my weekly review. A change may happen before then and I would have an old review process. So, I click the button when itâs time to do the review (which is just a checklist that I wonât share all of here). This matters much more in daily notes because I use the review plug-in to add reminders to future notes (which I can share if youâre interested).
Weekly Tasks
12 Week Plan Tactics
Other Priorities
Upcoming and Completed Tasks
name Show Weekly Tasks type append template action exclude/tasks-weekly remove trueWeekly Review
name Start Weekly Review type append template action exclude/review-weekly remove true
The âShow Weekly Tasksâ button imports the following template for highlighting upcoming due tasks and high priority tasks.
Due this week
[!IMPORTANT]-
short mode (due <% tp.file.title %>) OR ((due <% moment(tp.file.title, "gggg-[W]ww").add(1, "week").format("gggg-[W]ww") %>) AND (NOT done)) (due 2024-W06) OR (due 2024-W07) OR ((due before 2024-W07) AND (NOT done)) group by due is not recurring description does not include Review items in the daily noteHigh priority tasks
[!INFO]- High Priority tasks
short mode not done no scheduled date is not recurring priority is high description regex does not match /^\s*$/i path regex does not match /Templater\/./ (starts <% tp.file.title %>) OR (no start date) OR (starts before tomorrow) tags do not include wf tags do not include maybeCompleted this week
[!INFO]-
short mode description does not include Review items in the daily note done <% tp.file.title %> group by done
Thanks for posting this! I just changed the way I will do my Daily/Weekly notes. The primary benefit will be that I will think and write about those things that matter to me every day! Thanks so much for sharing.
Woah! How the heck did you do the top navigation links?
Not sure if this of any interest, but hereâs my weekly note:
I use daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly notes (for various things), and each feeds up into the higher level, while also reminding the lower level of itâs general content/drive/push.
So the weekly starts out transposing the âcurrent initiativesâ from my monthly note. These inform what I should be trying to accomplish this week. Next, I transpose tasks from last weekâs note and summaries from last weekâs daily notes. These help determine what Iâve already done of the initiatives without having to bounce back and forth through a bunch of notes as much.
I follow my own version of Getting Things Done (GTD), so I have a Kanban board for projects, so the next bit makes sure I have next actions assigned at the start of the week.
After that comes the tasks list for this week. I develop these âbig threeâ based upon all the information above this section in the weekly note. This list is the âfloorâ and focus of the week. Itâs the bare minimum to get done, while being strategic to have the biggest impact on my projects.
The âNeeds Attentionâ section pulls a single note from my inbox to help me keep that inbox small.
The Log section is a templater injection from another note. These a weekly tasks. If I need to adjust this list, I do it in that other note.
Days is a dataview table of the daily notes from this week, with a rating, summary, story, and hoverlinks to specific sections within the note for that day so I donât have to bounce around a bunch of notes to get the gist of it.
Hightlights is a dataview table of an inline key âhighlight::â for anything I really want to stand out. My monthly and yearly notes also pull these highlights to give me a sense of big things that happened.
The âReflectionâ section is part of the evening admin to sum up my day in a summary and some metrics on a 0-5 scale, then a place to write about my accomplishments for the week, what I felt went well and what didnât.
The âMetadataâ section at the bottom is a place for weekly tasks at have specific days of the week theyâre due. I use templater to compute and properly format those so the Tasks plugin will recognize and use them.
I use the Period Noteâs pluginâs date-math template tags:
â[[{{date-1w:GGGG-[W]WW}}]] | [[{{date:GGGG}}]] | [[{{date+1w:GGGG-[W]WW}}]]â
Itâs also possible to do with Templater at the expense of a gnarlier template, or with Obsidianâs core template date tag at the expense of manually adjusting the dates it outputs.
A tad late to this one, but itâs something Iâve been thinking about too and really trying to make it simple yet useful. Below is my currently weekly note. My current philosophy is:
Keep the weekly not focused on content, not queries, routines or other things that just repeat.
I like the idea that I can open my weekly note in Notepad or whatever and it is still pretty readable. As a result, I have a note in the side bar (shown below) which provides some task summaries and links to routine stuff. I can use the link hover preview functionality to view what I need to view. I suppose that is a bit like a dashboard.
So you can see the core of my weekly note is:
)At the bottom of my weekly note I have a section to wrap up the week and reflect. I have two lists here as I am not quite settled on which I prefer. I will end up picking just one of them though.
At the end I also put in a scan of my printed/scribbled on A3 week schedule.
My plan for the following week is done by hand on an A3 Outlook calendar printout, which I then scribble on and drop it in the next weekâs note and the cycle continuesâŚ
Mine are: notion::, idea::, achievement::, event::. âŠď¸
Could you elaborate on how you get your agenda via MS Power Automate? Does it automatically populate a list with your meetings for that day?
Np. Power automate sends me an email with my agenda (as all work events are through my work MS Exchange account).
The flow runs each morning early, getting all events for the day and creates & emails an HTML table to me. I can open and paste the plain text into my Obsidian note. Was a bit of annoying trial and error to sort out timezones in Power Automate but got there in the end.
Iâll see if I can drop you a DM with some screenshots of the flow. (Iâm happy to send to anyone who asksâjust seems too off-subject to post a load of PA screenshots here!).
Where can I get the code and what do i need to do to make it look like this?
Like please may you send a full weekly example or post one
I just use the Templater plugin. My weekly note template is below. Itâs set up so that the dates all work if you set it up on Sunday for the week ahead. Iâm sure there is a more robust way to do that but Iâm not really a coder.
Edit: youâll need to play around with the file paths in the links.
---
type: log
aliases:
date: <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD",1) %>
cssclasses:
---
# <% tp.file.title %> log
`<% tp.date.now("MMMM",7) %> w/c <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD",1) %>`
>[>>>](../../Calendar/<% tp.date.now("YYYY") %>/Weekly/<% tp.date.now("YYYY-[W]WW", -6) %>.md#Reflections) thought for the week
<< [Last week](../../Calendar/<% tp.date.now("YYYY") %>/Weekly/<% tp.date.now("YYYY-[W]WW", -6) %>.md) | [Next week](Calendar/<% tp.date.now("YYYY") %>/Weekly/<% tp.date.now("YYYY-[W]WW", +8) %>.md) | [<% tp.date.now("YYYY-[Q]Q") %>](../../Calendar/<% tp.date.now("YYYY") %>/Quarterly/<% tp.date.now("YYYY-[Q]Q") %>.md#Summary) >>
+ <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD dddd",5) %> [>](<% tp.date.now("YYYY-[W]WW",1) %>.md#<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD",5) %>%20<% tp.date.now("dddd",5) %>)
+ <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD dddd",4) %> [>](<% tp.date.now("YYYY-[W]WW",1) %>.md#<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD",4) %>%20<% tp.date.now("dddd",4) %>)
+ <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD dddd",3) %> [>](<% tp.date.now("YYYY-[W]WW",1) %>.md#<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD",3) %>%20<% tp.date.now("dddd",3) %>)
+ <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD dddd",2) %> [>](<% tp.date.now("YYYY-[W]WW",1) %>.md#<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD",2) %>%20<% tp.date.now("dddd",2) %>)
+ <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD dddd",1) %> [>](<% tp.date.now("YYYY-[W]WW",1) %>.md#<% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD",1) %>%20<% tp.date.now("dddd",1) %>)
+ Week [>](<% tp.date.now("YYYY-[W]WW",1) %>.md#Week)
## Daily log
#log/daily/<% tp.date.now("Y") %>
### <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD dddd",5) %>
### <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD dddd",4) %>
### <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD dddd",3) %>
### <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD dddd",2) %>
### <% tp.date.now("YYYY-MM-DD dddd",1) %>
## Week
#notebook/weekly/<% tp.date.now("YYYY") %>/<% tp.date.now("[W]WW",1) %>
### Reflections
đŠ *What went well:*
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đ§ *What didn't go so well:*
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đ¨ *Thoughts for next week:*
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đŚ Log in my books events, achievements, ideas, and notions
<!-- insert printout here -->
(See printout for the plan for next week).
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tags: #log/weekly/<% tp.date.now("Y") %>
parent::
related::
notebook:: #notebook/weekly/<% tp.date.now("Y") %>
notebook:: #notebook/work/26