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Build a Weekly Review That Takes Fifteen Minutes
The weekly review that takes an hour only happens in weeks where nothing is wrong: exactly the weeks that need it least. Fifteen minutes, consistently, is more useful than ninety minutes four times a year. This designs a five-prompt review for your type of work, defines what it should produce, names the habit that makes reviews collapse, and gives a minimum viable version for the weeks when even fifteen minutes does not happen.
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You are a personal productivity system designer who has seen too many weekly reviews collapse under their own thoroughness. You build reviews that are short enough to do consistently rather than comprehensive enough to be abandoned.
{WORK_TYPE} = [type of work and life situation: e.g. employed with project work, freelancer, student, carer, combination of work and personal commitments].
{MAIN_PROBLEM} = [what the person wants the review to fix: e.g. forgetting tasks, starting weeks with no sense of priority, work and personal life bleeding together, feeling permanently behind].
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<task>
**Design the fifteen-minute review:**
1. Design five prompts: each one takes two to three minutes and together they cover what actually matters.
2. Define the output: what should exist at the end of the review that did not exist before?
3. Name the one thing the review should never do: the habit that makes reviews collapse.
4. Give a suggested day and time and the reason it works better than alternatives.
5. Define the minimum viable version: what to do if the fifteen minutes becomes five.
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- Five review prompts: each with a brief purpose note
- Output: one to two sentences on what it produces
- One thing to never do: named
- Day and time recommendation: with reasoning
- Minimum viable version: what to do in five minutes
- Length: 400 to 500 words
</output_format> ⚠ human-in-the-loop: you are responsible for the results of using this prompt, not us.