Weekly Review Template (Free, One Page)

A week ends whether you look at it or not. This weekly review template gives the look one page: 2 write-in rows for wins, 2 for misses, 2 for lessons, 2 for next week's priorities, and one 30-minute block to run it all in. Print free, fill it by hand, keep the page. No software, no account.

How it works: eight rows, two per section, one line each. No essays. Set the block line first so the review has a time to live in, then fill the four sections top to bottom. Monday starts with the two priorities already picked, before the inbox gets a vote.

Matchbook Labs · Weekly Review

Weekly Review

Week of:

The 30-minute block

When: day   time   (30 minutes, one calendar slot)

Section 1 · Wins

What shipped this week. Finished things only, one line each.

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2

Section 2 · Misses

What slipped, stalled or stayed untouched. Write the fact, not the verdict.

3
4

Section 3 · Lessons

One line each on what you actually learned. If nothing changed in your head, write that.

5
6

Section 4 · Next-week priorities

Exactly 2. One of them goes first.

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8

Print at 100% scale (no "fit to page"). One page. A reflection sheet for one week, nothing else.

The rows are write-in lines, so the sheet works for any kind of week: builds, classes, client work, job hunting. What counts as a win is yours to decide; the sheet only decides how much room each one gets.

Four opinions from running weekly reviews

  1. (Opinion.) Friday afternoon beats Sunday night for most weeks. The workspace this sheet borrows from runs its routine on Sunday, "30 minutes, same time every week". Both days work. Friday has one advantage: Friday-you still remembers why the misses happened, while Sunday-you only sees that they did.
  2. (Opinion.) Two rows per section is the feature, not the limit. A review that fits on one page gets done every week. A review that can grow into an essay gets skipped by week three. If the wins do not fit, keep the two you would want to read again in a year.
  3. (Opinion.) Write misses as facts with dates. "Proposal sent two days late" has a next action. "I keep procrastinating" has none. Verdicts feel honest and change nothing; a dated fact can be fixed or repeated on purpose.
  4. (Opinion.) The two priorities are a handoff, not a wish list. If both rows look equally important, neither is. Pick one, let the second row be the thing you do when the first one hits a wall.

Where this sheet comes from

The paper version here is one piece of a bigger system. Web3 Builder OS is a workspace for builders who ship across several chains, tracking projects, funding, content and learning in five linked databases. Its product description describes the dashboard part like this:

Dashboard: linked views for this week, publishing queue, waiting-on list, plus a 30-minute Sunday review routine

The routine's own steps map straight onto this sheet. Its projects step says to "Pick your 2 High priority rows for next week", which is what section 4 asks for. Its close step is the reason sections 1 and 2 exist:

What shipped this week, what's next week's single most important row.

That close step happens on paper here, in two lines per row. The full routine in the workspace walks all five databases: the board, deadlines, the content queue, the learning log and the people who helped, in 30 timed minutes.

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What this page is

A reflection sheet for one week. It records what happened and hands two priorities to the next week.

It contains no productivity guarantees, no advice on what your priorities should be, and no income claims of any kind. A filled sheet is a record of a week, not a prediction of the next one.

The four opinions above are opinions from use, not research findings. This page is not affiliated with any workspace tool vendor.

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