The review that used to take an hour, done in ten minutes.

Why almost everyone skips weekly review

David Allen calls weekly review the "critical success factor" for GTD. Read his book and the message is clear: this is where the system actually works or doesn't. Then close the book and ask the next ten people if they actually do one. They'll laugh.

It's not that people don't want to. It's that doing one cold takes an hour, costs serious mental energy, and starts with staring at a long flat list of stuff. By the time you've decided what to look at first, you're already drained.

AI Weekly Review changes the starting point. Instead of a blank page, you start with a draft.

What you get when you click "Generate"

At the top of your Weekly Review, click Generate with AI. After a few seconds, four things appear:

1. A 3-paragraph narrative summary. What you shipped this week, where things drifted, one suggested focus for next week. Grounded in your actual data — specific project names, task counts, dates. Not generic.
2. Per-item suggestions. For Overdue, Stale Next Actions, and Someday items, the AI proposes an action with a one-line rationale: complete, drop, next, someday, or rewrite the title. Each appears as an "AI:" pill next to the task's normal action dropdown. Tap to accept; × to dismiss.
3. Notes → Tasks extraction. Commitments the AI finds in your recent daily pages that you probably should turn into tasks. "Call Linda Thursday" written into a Wednesday journal entry shows up here, with the quoted excerpt and an Add as Next or Add as Inbox button.
4. Area observations. One-sentence observations when an Area went quiet or showed unusual concentration. "Health hasn't seen a task in 12 days" — that kind of thing.

What gets sent to the AI

• Your active tasks — title, status, project, area, dates, modified timestamp
• Your active projects — name, outcome, task count, most recent activity
• Your recent notes from the last 7-14 days — title + body preview, truncated
• Your Areas of Focus and their activity counts
• Completed tasks from the review window, so the "what you shipped" section can be written

What's not sent: your email address or identity, completed tasks older than the review window, notes outside the review window, anything from other users.

First time you click Generate, you'll see a consent modal explaining what's sent. Accepting writes a flag to your profile. You can revoke anytime in Settings → AI Review. Anthropic doesn't retain the request content.

What this gets right

It accelerates the discipline; it doesn't replace it

Every "AI:" pill is editable. Every commitment-extraction is shown with the quoted source so you can verify before accepting. The narrative summary is a draft you read, not an answer you accept on faith. The decisions are yours; the reading is the AI's.

It's grounded, not hallucinated

The summary names specific projects ("the kitchen remodel moved forward, the Q2 launch plan is stuck") because the model is given specific project data. It doesn't say "you had a productive week" — it says what actually happened, in your own taxonomy.

It catches commitments you forgot to capture

The Notes → Tasks extraction is the unique value. Most review tools surface what's in your task list. This one reads what you wrote in your daily pages and finds the things that should be tasks but aren't yet. It's the safety net for the "I meant to follow up on that" gap.

Limits

• 31 generations per month per Pro user. Resets on the 1st.
• 5 generations per hour.
• Re-running within 15 minutes returns your existing review (cached). After that, a fresh one is generated.

The limits are mostly there to keep the costs reasonable. For weekly use, you'll never hit them.

Tips

• Let the AI be wrong sometimes. The suggestions are grounded but not infallible. Dismiss the ones that feel off. The point is to accelerate your review, not replace your judgment.
• Run it weekly, not daily. More frequent = less signal. The AI works best with a week of change to narrate.
• Read the summary before the per-item pills. The narrative primes you for the tactical decisions. Flipping straight to pills is like reading the score before the game.

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