Is the Weekly Review Board free?

Yes. The board, the guide and every export are free, and you do not need an account.

Where is my board saved?

In this browser's local storage, after every change, so a reload or a closed tab keeps it. If you are signed in, it is also saved to your HourLife account, so it opens on your other devices, and you can delete it there in Settings. Signed out, nothing is sent to HourLife or anywhere else. Clearing your browser data removes it, so copy or download the review to keep a record. The board holds one week at a time.

How do I rank the cards?

Drag a card up or down its lane, or into another lane. On a phone, drag it by the dotted grip, or use the arrow buttons on the card. From the keyboard, focus a card and press Alt or Shift with Up and Down to reorder, or with Left and Right to move it to the next lane.

What do the top cards mean?

The order of a lane is its ranking, and the top card is the decision: protect the top win, stop the top drain, shrink the top avoided task to a first step, and run the top experiment. They are collected along the bottom of the board and at the top of every export.

How does it relate to the GTD weekly review?

The guide borrows the order of David Allen's weekly review from Getting Things Done, get clear, get current, get creative, as get clear, look back and look ahead. It does not replace your task lists. It is for what the week taught you and the one experiment you will run next.

How do I export my review?

Copy it as plain text, copy it as Markdown for a notes app, download it as a .md file, or print it. The print dialog can also save it as a PDF, laid out as one light page with the decisions on top.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes. On a narrow screen the lanes stack and the page scrolls. Add cards from the field at the top of each lane, and paste several lines at once to add one card per line.

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Weekly Review Board

Close the week on one board

Sort the week into wins, drains, what you avoided and what to try next. Rank each lane, and the top cards become next week's plan.

Open the board How a review goes

4 ranked lanes
Text, Markdown or PDF
Free, no account

Wins

Protect
Two deep-work mornings
Cooked at home four nights
Hard talk with Sam

Drains

Stop
Phone in bed past midnight
Meetings with no follow-up

Avoided

Shrink
Budget cleanup
Project outline
Booking the dentist

Next experiments

Run
Plan Monday before email
Phone charges in the kitchen

Four lanes, one question each

Write one thing per card. The order of a lane is its ranking, and the card on top is the one you act on.

Wins

What went well, even a little? A finished task, a kept habit, a good conversation.
Top card: Protect it so it happens again next week.
Drains

What cost more energy than it gave back? The things that kept recurring.
Top card: Stop it or do less of it.
Avoided

What did you put off, or move to next week again? Naming it is half the work.
Top card: Shrink it to a first step you can start Monday.
Next experiments

What one change will you test next week? Small enough that you will know by Friday.
Top card: Run it and only that one.

A review in three passes, then one decision

The guide beside the board borrows its order from David Allen's weekly review in Getting Things Done: get clear, get current, get creative.

Get clear

A short checklist: empty your head, clear the inbox, look back over last week's calendar and ahead at the next two.
Look back

Fill wins, drains and avoided from the week you just had, then drag each lane into order.
Look ahead

Turn the top avoided task or drain into an experiment in one click, or write your own.
Decide

The top cards line up as protect, stop, shrink and commit. Add a theme for the week and copy the review out.

Where to start

Your board is kept in this browser, so you come back to the same one. The example only fills an empty board. Prefer to write it out? Use the weekly review template.

Rank by drag or by keyboard

Every move a mouse can make has a key. On a phone, drag a card by its dotted grip or use its arrow buttons.

Move between cards and lanes↑↓←→
Move a card up or down its laneAlt↑↓
Move a card to the next laneAlt←→
Send a card to the top or bottomAltHomeEnd
Edit a cardEnter
Delete a card (with undo)Del

Questions

Is the Weekly Review Board free?

Yes. The board, the guide and every export are free, and you do not need an account.
Where is my board saved?

In this browser's local storage, after every change, so a reload or a closed tab keeps it. If you are signed in, it is also saved to your HourLife account, so it opens on your other devices, and you can delete it there in Settings. Signed out, nothing is sent to HourLife or anywhere else. Clearing your browser data removes it, so copy or download the review to keep a record. The board holds one week at a time.
How do I rank the cards?

Drag a card up or down its lane, or into another lane. On a phone, drag it by the dotted grip, or use the arrow buttons on the card. From the keyboard, focus a card and press Alt or Shift with Up and Down to reorder, or with Left and Right to move it to the next lane.
What do the top cards mean?

The order of a lane is its ranking, and the top card is the decision: protect the top win, stop the top drain, shrink the top avoided task to a first step, and run the top experiment. They are collected along the bottom of the board and at the top of every export.
How does it relate to the GTD weekly review?

The guide borrows the order of David Allen's weekly review from Getting Things Done, get clear, get current, get creative, as get clear, look back and look ahead. It does not replace your task lists. It is for what the week taught you and the one experiment you will run next.
How do I export my review?

Copy it as plain text, copy it as Markdown for a notes app, download it as a .md file, or print it. The print dialog can also save it as a PDF, laid out as one light page with the decisions on top.
Does it work on a phone?

Yes. On a narrow screen the lanes stack and the page scrolls. Add cards from the field at the top of each lane, and paste several lines at once to add one card per line.