MentalDownload for iOSWeekly review / from notes to next week
Look at what happened, not just what stayed on the list. Choose something to continue, something to change, or something you can close. Then give one next action a place.
See a week become a plan
This is a small review of personal notes: reread the week, notice what deserves attention, and choose a next step. The full GTD Weekly Review also examines a wider system of tasks, projects and commitments. If you use that system, use its official checklist; this journal-based format is an independent, narrower practice.
A fictional week / 12–16 October 2026
At first, Ari remembers a week of failing to finish a project draft. Five short notes contain more information. Ari and these entries are fictional.
The notes / before the interpretation
The reasoning / what can I take from this?
Two lunch notes describe something Ari enjoyed. Wednesday also contains tiredness. That supports choosing another walk, not a claim that walks fix every afternoon.
Two mornings began with chat and a delayed draft. Friday suggests a different opening is worth trying. It does not prove why the earlier mornings went that way.
The invitation is a different kind of open loop: Ari already knows the answer. It needs a kind response, rather than another week of reconsidering.
Continue
Choose it because it was welcome on Monday and Wednesday. A tired afternoon does not erase that, or need to be explained away.
Change
Use Friday's start as a small experiment for Monday. The aim is to begin the paragraph, not finish the whole project at nine.
Close
Ari can send “Thanks for thinking of me; I can't make this one.” Once sent, mark the invitation answered.
One next action
Open the draft and write its next rough sentence before opening chat. Put that in the existing calendar; add a Friday check-in to see what happened.
The review ends with a choice and a place to find it. Ari does not have to finish the draft, clear the inbox and reorganise every note while reviewing the week.
A fictional week / a small card for the next one
I enjoyed it. It didn't have to fix the afternoon.
Try the document before chat.
I know the answer. Send it kindly.
Open the draft. Write one rough sentence.
If something keeps expanding the review, capture it as a separate action: “sort the old project folder” or “ask which deadline changed.” The review does not need to become an immediate clear-out of everything you discover.
Choose at least one thing to continue, change or close. There is no need to fill every field to make the review count.
This free web tool is separate from the Mental app. Answers stay in this page's memory, with no account, upload, autosave or AI processing. Reloading clears them. Download your card if you want to keep it; the date does not create a reminder.
An original one-page worksheet for continue, change, close and the next step. Save the SVG, open it in a browser and print, or choose Save as PDF.
Mental's calendar and notes can give you material to reread. Return to the particular day before deciding what a repeated feeling means. Memory can help carry context forward; your review still needs the source notes and your judgement. This card is a separate web tool, not an app task manager.
David Allen Company: GTD Weekly Review checklist describes the full system review. Our continue/change/close format, worksheet and fictional week are original editorial examples. A few personal notes can inform a choice; they do not establish what caused a feeling or predict next week.
