How I Do My Weekly Review In Obsidian

My entire template including code snippets

Michelle Mac
5 min readFeb 21, 2022

If I didn’t have a weekly review process I simply wouldn’t make consistent progress towards my goals.

I have been doing my weekly review inside of Obsidian for over a year and have found it to be a really helpful process. It gives me the space to look back at the last week and plan for the next week.

My weekly review process has evolved considerably since I wrote about it last. I recently finished the latest revision of my weekly note template so I thought it would be a great time to share it with others who might find it helpful.

In this article, I share with you my weekly review note in Obsidian. I go through how everything is set up including the code and the plugins I use.

Plugins Used

Here are the plugins I use in Obsidian to make my weekly review note work:

  • Periodic Notes — This generates my weekly review note.
  • Calendar — This works in conjunction with Periodic Notes to make sure my weekly note is created on a Monday.
  • Templater — This allows me to use some code snippets to pull in dates that I can use for file referencing.
  • Dataview — This allows me to query my Obsidian…

--

--

Michelle Mac
Michelle Mac

Written by Michelle Mac

The *heavily edited* ramblings of a technical writer & frontend dev. I write about creativity, design, and productivity. Start here: https://heymichellemac.com/