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This skill generates a concise weekly synthesis of work and thinking, highlighting patterns, insights, and next actions to guide your planning.
npx playbooks add skill openclaw/skills --skill weekly-synthesisReview the files below or copy the command above to add this skill to your agents.
---
name: weekly-synthesis
description: Create a comprehensive synthesis of the week's work and thinking
version: 1.0.0
author: theflohart
tags: [productivity, review, synthesis, patterns]
---
# Weekly Synthesis
Create a comprehensive synthesis of the week's work and thinking.
## Usage
```
/weekly-synthesis
```
## Analysis Process
1. **Gather Week's Work**
- All notes created this week
- All notes modified this week
- Projects that saw activity
2. **Identify Patterns**
- Recurring themes
- Common challenges
- Breakthrough moments
- Energy patterns (what energized vs drained)
3. **Synthesize Learning**
- Key insights that emerged
- How thinking evolved
- Connections discovered
- Questions answered and raised
4. **Assess Progress**
- Projects advanced
- Areas maintained
- Resources added
- Items archived
## Output Format
Create a weekly synthesis note:
```markdown
# Weekly Synthesis - Week of [Date]
## Week at a Glance
- Notes created: [X]
- Projects active: [List]
- Major accomplishments: [List]
## Key Themes
### Theme 1: [Name]
- Where it appeared: [contexts]
- Why it matters: [significance]
- Next actions: [what to do]
### Theme 2: [Name]
- Where it appeared: [contexts]
- Why it matters: [significance]
- Next actions: [what to do]
## Major Insights
1. [Insight with context]
2. [Insight with context]
## Progress by Project
### [Project Name]
- What advanced:
- What's blocked:
- Next week's focus:
## Questions Emerged
- [Question 1 - and why it matters]
- [Question 2 - and why it matters]
## Energy Audit
- What gave energy:
- What drained energy:
- What to adjust:
## Connections Made
- [Note A] <-> [Note B]: [Why significant]
- [Concept X] <-> [Concept Y]: [New understanding]
## Next Week's Intentions
1. [Primary focus]
2. [Secondary focus]
3. [Thing to explore]
## To Process
- Inbox items: [count]
- Orphaned notes: [list]
- Missing connections: [identified]
```
## Follow-up Actions
- Archive completed projects
- Clean up inbox
- Update project status
- Plan next week's focus
This skill creates a comprehensive synthesis of a week’s work and thinking to surface themes, progress, and next actions. It compiles notes and project activity, identifies patterns and insights, and outputs a structured weekly synthesis note you can use for planning. The result is a concise, actionable summary that supports reflection and prioritization.
The skill gathers notes created or modified during the week and lists projects that saw activity. It scans those items to detect recurring themes, challenges, breakthroughs, and energy patterns. It synthesizes learnings, maps progress by project, and produces a formatted weekly synthesis note with key themes, insights, questions, and next-week intentions. Follow-up actions like archiving completed work and cleaning the inbox are suggested automatically.
What inputs does the synthesis use?
It uses notes created or modified during the week and projects that had activity; inbox and orphaned notes are flagged for processing.
How does it present findings?
It produces a structured weekly note with a week-at-a-glance, key themes, major insights, project progress, questions, energy audit, connections, and next-week intentions.