How to Manage your Entire Week
by juliusf@ · 82 things on Twos
- Weekly Review
- ✓ Some helpful links:
- ✓ Inspired by Martine Ellis
- ✓ And Tiago Forte
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- ✓ Review this week's tasks, move any incomplete actions to next week
- ✓ Review goals and progress
- ✓ Clear email inbox, capture new tasks and notes
- ✓ Review the past week, capture any outstanding tasks or notes
- ✓ Clear notes inbox and file
- ✓ Check Work and Projects Lists for next actions - schedule these
- ✓ Plan the upcoming week and schedule in calendar
- ✓ Make a list in Twos of everything you need to remember to do - I generally do this in Today first
- ✓ Add days and times to your things, and link them to your calendar - that way you can timeblock. Each day is then laid out for you which means you don’t have to think: what should I do today?
- ✓ Schedule everything!
- Every weekend (I like to do this on a Sunday), review your personal things
- ✓ See above
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- Daily Check In
- ✓ Every day, review today's progress and tomorrow's to do list
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- Finances
- I've used my method of tracking my finances for many years. Over time, I've honed my process. My best advice: create a spreadsheet of your annual as well as monthly outgoings and plan your expenditure accordingly.
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- Use a mechanism to track your finances. A spreadsheet, an app, whatever works for you.
- I use Snoop
- Reconcile your finances every day! It might sound like overkill but keeping on top of things takes minutes.
- Create an annual financial spreadsheet documenting all your outgoings for 12 months.
- Try this one
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- Shopping
- We are utterly hopeless at shopping if we freestyle it! I compile a list as things occur to me. I shop once a week, at the most, on either a Tuesday or Wednesday evening when the supermarket is quiet. I never shop at the weekend.
- 🛒 Shopping List
- Milk
- Bread
- Cheese
- Chicken seasoning from Asda
- Noodles packs about 6 packs
- Red pepper, long pepper, tomatoes
- Blueberries, strawberry, banana, apple grapes
- Frozen Pizza
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- Menu
- Shopping ties in with menu planning. Again, we're not the best at this when we wing it. I do sometimes plan the menu before I shop but, mostly, I make the plan using the till receipt based on what I bought.
I also assign certain foods to specific days - it helps remove some of the decision making.
- 🍽️ Weekly Menu
- Monday - Rice & stew
- Butterfly chicken
- Tuesday - Pasta & sauce with chicken
- Grilled trout
- Wednesday - Burger and chips
- Roast leg of lamb
- Thursday - Ebay and Vegetable soup
- Quiche
- Friday - Noodle and Chicken
- Salmon
- Saturday - Pizza 🍕
- Home made curry
- Sunday - Spaghetti and Chicken
- Roast chicken
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- Birthdays and Anniversaries
- I like to check upcoming birthdays at the end of each month - makes sure you catch any early month birthdays or anniversaries.
I note them down in Twos and set a reminder to buy cards and/or gifts.
- Check upcoming birthdays and anniversaries
- Remember to buy cards/gifts
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- Cleaning
- I find a strict schedule for cleaning doesn't work for me. Other commitments get in the way and then I'm not up to date. I prefer to keep a running list of tasks I need to do - a few are scheduled but most are reminders to complete tasks when I have time.
- 🧹 Cleaning List
- ✓ Change the beds
- ✓ Clean toilets
- ✓ Clean toilets
- Mop kitchen and living room floors
- ✓ Hoover upstairs
- ✓ Hoover downstairs
- Dry clean curtains
- ✓ Clean kitchen
- Etc
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- Backup Twos
- I do this once a week on a Sunday. I send my backup to Obsidian - it’s easy to export as a .md file. I simply select my iCloud drive and save it to the relevant directory.
- ✓ Backup Twos every week
- Every Friday afternoon, review your work week