How Claude Code Fixed My Weekly Review

I skipped my weekly reviews for months. Not because they weren't valuable, I've drunk the kool-aid after all. But staring at a week's worth of scattered daily notes, trying to synthesize them into something coherent? That took mental effort I didn't have at the end of a week.

Now I type /gtd-weekly-review in Claude Code and it does the heavy lifting. I do the review and synthesizing.

The Setup

My capture system is stupid simple: cmd+space, dn, type something, hit enter. Every thought goes into that day's note in my Obsidian vault. Meeting notes, random ideas, action items I'll forget in 10 minutes - it all gets dumped into 0-inbox/daily-notes/.

PARA structure means Claude Code knows exactly where to look. GTD capture rhythm means there's always something worth processing.

At the end of the week, I run my custom command. It reads through all my daily notes, pulls out the action items, writes a summary. Takes about 30 seconds.

Then I edit. Add context. Remove the noise. The summary becomes my team's weekly status update and my personal "what did I actually do this week" reference. Action items get triaged into tickets.

Writer's block is over. I'm not starting from zero anymore.

Human in the Loop

Could I let AI write the whole thing and post it automatically? Sure. Would it be accurate? No. Would anyone care? Also no.

The point isn't removing myself from the process. It's removing the friction that made me avoid the process entirely.

Claude Code unblocks the step I was skipping and synthesizes a week of brain dumps into coherent thoughts. But I still decide what matters. AI should be removing the boring processes, unblocking where people get stuck: this is the real force multiplier.

Now I actually do my weekly reviews. That's the whole point.