How I weeknote
I’ve been writing my weeknotes a little while now, and since starting I’ve wanted to codify exactly what weeknoting means to me, what I do it for, in an attempt to draw a little box around it. Writing this up has never fit into a weeknote itself, as I’ve always had other things I’d prefer to write about. So here’s an attempt to do that, in a special little blog post all of its own.
I write weeknotes for myself.
Weeknotes are about work and work adjacent things.
A single weeknote should take no more than 5 minutes to read. Any longer then it’s a blog post of its own and I will add it to my blog post backlog.
I don’t worry about missed weeks. Some weeks will get missed and that’s part of the process, not the end of it.
I write on a Sunday in nearly all cases, unless I’m unable to, in which case I write on a Saturday, or Monday. Any later than Monday evening and it’s a missed week. See rule 4.
Weeknotes cover the last week, if I’ve missed a week I don’t try to wrap up a fortnight in the next weeknote. See rule 4.
I write about what’s stuck with me when I sit down to write my weeknote. I don’t want to assume what’s important, or interesting enough to weeknote while it’s happening, so I don’t take notes during the week to feature in my weeknote. If I’ve forgotten it by the time of writing then it wasn’t worthy of inclusion in a weeknote.
There is no such thing as a weeknote streak, I don’t care or reward how many notes I’ve written in a row. See rule 4.
The extra sections, ‘listening’, ‘reading’, ‘watching’, ‘playing’, ‘doing’ are entirely optional. Listening is for music. Audiobooks belong in reading.
Breaking any of the above rules is fun and I’ll do it as often as I like. See rule 1.
