Week notes: are they worth it?
Note: I originally posted this on my pagecord blog (? or microblog?).
Every week, with the occasional failure, I write a summary of my week: week notes. I separate things into general categories, and usually find something to write in it because I jot things down into daily notes and automatically compile those into a weekly review note in obsidian.
There are weeks - and lately I've had several weeks in a row - where it all seems rather pointless. It's funny, I like reading other people's weekly summaries but I feel like other people don't want to read mine. Am I even doing this for me?
Arguably writing week notes is akin to doing a weekly review in your bullet journal, something I "should" be doing. In that sense, taking a look at the week that was and having a look at what happened is a neat thing to do. On one hand it's nice to have this documented for reference, but on the other hand it can feel like I'm writing week notes for the sake of writing week notes.
Looking at my archive of week notes, I've been doing them regularly since April 2024. At the time it was an experiment, based on seeing what other people were doing. I recall wondering if I would stick with it. Well, we're a year and a half later and I'm still doing them. I don't think I've missed any (not counting the two weeks around Christmas and New Year's when I opted not to write anything).
At this point I feel obligated to finish out the year before figuring out what I want to do. And I'm not even sure where I want to post them right now. I've been putting them on my personal site, aside from my blog, because my thought process was - my personal site (which doesn't host a blog) is meant as a showcase for all the things I work on; my week notes are a showcase for the things I worked on that week. Surely that's where they should go!
But when I've thought about it recently it strikes me that it makes more sense to put them on my blog, where people are already reading my stuff (maybe they're reading it).
But if I'm questioning the efficacy of writing them in the first place, does it really matter where I post them?