Weekly review
A weekly review your AI runs with you. It asks five questions, then writes the week up in Amber Notes, newest first.
For anyone who wants twenty calm minutes on Sunday instead of a vague Monday.
Free. Use template opens Amber Notes and adds the note. No Amber Notes yet? Download it for Mac.
30 September 2026
Weekly review
Twenty minutes on Sunday. Your AI asks the questions, and the answers land here, newest week first.
Questions
- What went well this week?
- What didn't, and why?
- What did I learn?
- What am I grateful for?
- What are my top three for next week?
Reviews
Week of 28 September
- Went well: shipped the pricing page; two early nights.
- Didn't: no deep work on Thursday, too many meetings.
- Learned: a 30-minute agenda beats a 60-minute meeting.
- Grateful for: dinner with my sister.
- Block Thursday mornings for deep work
- Send the Q4 plan to Jonas
- Book the dentist
The note after a few days of talking to your AI. Tinted lines are what it added, the way Amber Notes shows an AI's changes, with Undo and the earlier version kept in the note's history.
What the prompt does
Your AI creates a note called “Weekly review” in your Notes folder, or finds the one you already have, and learns how to keep it. Twenty minutes on Sunday. Your AI asks the questions, and the answers land here, newest week first.
Paste it once into a chat in ChatGPT or Claude with Amber Notes turned on, or into Claude Code.
Then just talk to it
- It's time for my weekly review.
- What did I say I'd focus on last week?
- What keeps coming up in my reviews?
Show the full prompt
First, look for a note called "Weekly review" in my Amber Notes with search_notes. If there isn't one, create it with create_note in the folder "Notes", using exactly the markdown at the end of this message, the <!-- pane-table --> line included (it gives the table's columns their types).
Then: Use my Amber Notes note "Weekly review". When I say it's time for my weekly review, ask me the questions under "Questions" one at a time. Then add the week at the start of "Reviews" with append_to_note (at_start): a "### Week of" heading with Monday's date, my answers as short bullets in my own words, and my top three as a checklist. When I tell you one is done, tick it with set_checklist_item.
```markdown Weekly review Twenty minutes on Sunday. Your AI asks the questions, and the answers land here, newest week first. ## Questions 1. What went well this week? 2. What didn't, and why? 3. What did I learn? 4. What am I grateful for? 5. What are my top three for next week? ## Reviews ```
The note you start with
This is what the prompt creates in Amber Notes: an ordinary note with the headings ready. Your AI fills it in from there, and you can still edit every line yourself.
Today
Weekly review
Twenty minutes on Sunday. Your AI asks the questions, and the answers land here, newest week first.
Questions
- What went well this week?
- What didn't, and why?
- What did I learn?
- What am I grateful for?
- What are my top three for next week?
Reviews
How to set it up
- Add the template to Amber NotesChoose Use template. Amber Notes opens and adds the "Weekly review" note to the folder you pick.
- Connect your AIConnect ChatGPT, Claude or Claude Code to Amber Notes once, and choose Read and Edit so it can fill in the note.
- Give your AI the promptCopy the prompt for your AI and paste it into a chat. Then tell it what happened, in your own words.
- ChatGPTPlus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu, on the web. A few minutes in Developer mode.Connect ChatGPT
- ClaudeOpen Amber Notes in Claude's connector directory, choose Connect to Claude, then Allow.Connect Claude
- Claude CodeOne command in your terminal, or the button in Amber Notes on a Mac.Connect Claude Code
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