The eleven box weekly review

A one page checklist to print, paste into a note, or drop into any task app. Eleven boxes, about twenty minutes.

Weekly reviews collapse because they get thorough. A thorough review takes ninety minutes, so you skip it once, then you skip it permanently.

Eleven boxes fits in the gap between two other things. The list is fixed on purpose: three boxes look backwards, three of them force an honest label on what you missed, and the rest turn exactly one thing into a scheduled action. The last box is an instruction to stop.

Download it as Markdown and it will paste cleanly into most note and task apps as real checkboxes.

Eleven boxes, Markdown

Close every browser tab that is not part of this review

List everything you actually finished this week

List everything you said you would do and did not

For each miss write one word: blocked, forgot, or changed my mind

Delete anything you have carried forward three weeks running

Pick the single item that would make next week feel different

Put that item on a specific day, at a specific hour

Write down its first physical step, the one you could start in a minute

Scan the calendar for anything that needs preparing before it arrives

Send the one message you have been avoiding

Stop. Do not add a twelfth box.

Download eleven-box-weekly-review.md (Markdown, 1.3 KB)

Receipt

Source: first party

Cost: Free. Plain Markdown, no account, no app.

Free alternative: This is the free version.

Tested: 2026-07-26

Material connection: None.

The catch: It only works while it stays at eleven. The moment you add a twelfth box you have stopped reviewing and started planning, and the review goes back to ninety minutes.