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Weekly Review Template 2026 (AI-Powered, Takes 5 Minutes)

The weekly review is the highest-leverage productivity practice available. Most people do it wrong: they review their task list, feel good about checking boxes, and change nothing. Here is the review that actually produces course corrections.

David Allen popularised the weekly review in Getting Things Done. The practice has been diluted into a hundred different templates, most of which share the same flaw: they review activity, not trajectory.

The question is not "what did I do this week?" The question is "am I closer to who I intend to become than I was seven days ago?" Those are different questions with different answers.

The Problem With Most Weekly Review Templates

Most weekly review templates are checklists: clear your inbox, review your projects, look at your calendar, set priorities. These are maintenance tasks, not growth tasks.

A maintenance review tells you what is left to do. A growth review tells you whether your actions this week moved you toward your goals — and if not, what specifically changed.

The FORGE Weekly Review — What to Review

1.

Alignment Score

Your word-kept rate for the week. Habit completion % and commitment kept %. This is the most important number. If it is below 70%, the review starts here: what specifically caused the gap?

2.

Health Trend

Did your sleep hours and quality improve or decline this week? Did your HRV trend up or down? These predict next week's execution capacity. A declining health trend means next week will be harder, not easier.

3.

Domain Scores

Where did you gain ground? Where did you lose it? The Life Score breaks down into Health, Body, Wealth, and Mind — each with a trend. One declining domain is a signal. Two declining domains is a pattern.

4.

Goal Progress

Did each goal's progress % move this week? If a goal did not move, name the reason specifically. "Busy" is not a reason. What specific action was skipped, and what was it replaced with?

5.

Financial Position

Did cash flow improve or decline relative to the previous week? Is the trend moving toward or away from your financial goals? This review takes 2 minutes and has outsized impact on financial behaviour.

6.

Oracle AI Review

FORGE's AI Weekly Review reads all your data for the week and surfaces cross-domain patterns — things you would not notice reviewing each domain separately. This is the synthesis that most people skip when reviewing manually.

The Weekly Review Template (Manual Version)

If you are not using FORGE yet, here is a manual template that covers the same ground:

WEEKLY REVIEW — 2026-06-12

## ALIGNMENT

Habits completed this week: ___ / ___ (___ %)

Commitments I kept: ___ / ___ (___ %)

If below 70%: What specifically caused the gap? ___

## HEALTH

Average sleep hours: ___

Average sleep quality (1-10): ___

Average HRV (if tracked): ___

Health trend vs last week: Better / Same / Worse

## GOALS

Goal 1: ___ — Progress this week: ___

Goal 2: ___ — Progress this week: ___

Goal 3: ___ — Progress this week: ___

## FINANCES

This week income: ___ | expenses: ___

Net this week: ___ | Trend vs last week: ___

## NEXT WEEK FOCUS

Single highest-leverage change: ___

Three non-negotiable commitments:

1. ___ 2. ___ 3. ___

The AI-Powered Version

The manual template works. The AI-powered version in FORGE adds the layer that the manual template cannot: cross-domain pattern recognition.

FORGE's AI Weekly Review reads all your data for the week and generates a narrative summary: what went well, what declined, and — most importantly — what patterns connect the domains. Did your habit completion drop correlate with a sleep quality decline? Did a spending spike follow a high-stress week? Oracle names these connections specifically.

The review takes 5 minutes, not 45. You review Oracle's narrative, confirm or challenge it, and set your three non-negotiables for next week.

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