After reading different productivity tips and posts about it, I wrote my first Week Note today, Sunday, in preparation of the upcoming week.
It’s a summary of the different projects and tasks we got done last week, and an overview of the things we have to work on this coming week number 17.
I wrote it for my team (we are a small team of two people total) and I really hope it helps us stay on top of things and with the feeling that it all has a purpose.
I wrote it in a casual tone, because I want to convey my train of thoughts (is it chain of thoughts?) in a manner that’s not too formal and demanding. I want the week notes to feel like a moment in which we share our common accomplishments and not a billboard of hundreds of cumbersome tasks.
I’m using Workflowy for that. It’s the tool that my teammate likes the most. I’m an OmniFocus guy and, for me, my only source of truth is OmniFocus. But it’s not really a collaboration tool, and my teammate has never grasped its functionality when trying the web version, so it never stuck.
So Workflowy it is. We use it in its most basic of forms: just a very flexible outline, where we jot down every task and commentary on a particular project. I made one new bullet titled “Notas semanales” (Week Notes), gave it an H1 heading format, indented a note for Week 17 with an H2 heading format, and then started writing underneath. Easy peasy. I wrote four sections (each of them is nothing but an indented bullet with many indented paragraphs under it, couldn’t be easier): an introduction so my teammate understands the purpose of this notes, a summary of week 16, an overview of week 17, and a colophon, where I also linked to this interesting scheduling tip (30, 60, 90 by Garrick Van Buren) that I just read thanks to @patrickrhone.
We’ll see. I don’t know if it’s sustainable. I plan to grow up my team shortly, so I hope this week notes really stick and that they become a good source of info about our work for ourselves and for future teammates.