#How to Do a High-Quality Weekly Review with Aino LifeOS

The weekly review is one of the most impactful habits for personal productivity. This post shows how to use Aino LifeOS's features to complete a thorough weekly review in 30 minutes.

#Preparation: Open Your Weekly Note

Every Sunday (or your preferred time), open the weekly note. Aino LifeOS auto-creates it with your template structure.

#Step 1: Review This Week's Daily Notes (5 min)

Scan through this week's 5 daily notes:

1. In the periodic notes navigation, expand this week
2. Click through each day, scanning notes and tasks
3. Record key items in the weekly note:

## Week Review

### Completed

- Finished user feedback analysis report
- Payment module code review approved
- Confirmed notification system interaction design with designer

### Not Completed

- Product review materials only half done
- 3 client emails still unanswered

#Step 2: Check Task Completion (5 min)

Open the task inbox to review this week's task status:

1. Filter to view this week's tasks
2. Count completed vs. incomplete
3. Decide what to do with incomplete tasks:

### Task Statistics

- Planned tasks: 12
- Completed: 9
- Deferred to next week: 2
- Cancelled: 1
- Completion rate: 75%

#Step 3: Review Calendar (5 min)

Open the calendar week view for a time perspective:

1. Was this week's time allocation reasonable?
2. Were too many hours consumed by meetings?
3. Were there enough focus work blocks?

Combine with Pomodoro records to tally focus time:

### Time Analysis

- This week's Pomodoros: 18 (7.5 hours of deep work)
- Target: 20
- Gap reason: Wednesday was all meetings, zero Pomodoros completed

#Step 4: Review Habits (3 min)

Open the habit tracking panel:

### Habit Tracking

| Habit        | Days Done | Goal   | Status     |
| ------------ | --------- | ------ | ---------- |
| Exercise     | 4/5       | 5 days | One short  |
| Reading      | 5/5       | 5 days | ✅ Met     |
| Meditation   | 2/5       | 5 days | Needs work |
| Early rising | 3/5       | 5 days | Acceptable |

#Step 5: AI-Assisted Summary (5 min)

Use AI Chat to speed up the summary:

1. Use # to reference this week's 5 daily notes
2. Type:

Analyze my work this week:
1. Summarize key accomplishments
2. Identify where the most time was spent
3. Find blockers and how they were resolved
4. Suggest improvements for next week

3. AI synthesizes all 5 daily notes into a structured analysis
4. Copy valuable insights into the weekly note

#Step 6: Plan Next Week (7 min)

Plan next week in the weekly note:

## Next Week Plan

### Priority Tasks

- [ ] Complete notification system frontend UI components 📅 2024-04-08
- [ ] Finish product review materials 📅 2024-04-08
- [ ] Reply to remaining client emails 📅 2024-04-08

### Time Allocation

- Monday: Clear backlog tasks
- Tuesday-Thursday: Notification system development
- Friday: Code review + documentation

### Improvements

- Reduce Wednesday meetings, keep at least 2 hours of uninterrupted work time
- Move meditation habit to right after waking up to avoid skipping when tired at night

The - [ ] tasks in next week's plan automatically appear in the task inbox.

#Step 7: PARA Cleanup (Optional, 5 min)

Do this monthly, or whenever PARA feels cluttered:

1. Open the PARA home view
2. Check Projects: any completed but not archived?
3. Check Areas: is each area being maintained?
4. Check Resources: do last week's collected materials need organizing?
5. Execute any necessary moves and archiving

#30-Minute Weekly Review Checklist