Planning my week with Claude

Given sufficient context, LLMs are good thought partners for weekly reviews and planning.

I have a Claude project called "Weekly & monthly plans", with these project instructions, and the following Google Docs for context:

• "2025 plans and reviews": a collection of all my plans and reviews.
• My "About me" doc.
• My templates for weekly, monthly and quarterly planning.

My weekly review process:

1. Start a chat with Claude 4 Opus (Thinking) in the "Weekly & monthly plans" project.
2. Say "let's do a review of week number $X".
3. Claude reads the context docs, then asks me questions based on my week review template.
4. I pick up my phone, and use the Recorder app to dictate my thoughts as I take a walk (or pace around the room). ¹ This usually takes 10-15 minutes.
5. Copy-paste the transcript into Claude.
6. Read Claude's response, then do some further reflection and conversation.
7. Ask Claude to write up the week review into my week review template.
8. Copy-paste the review into my "2025 plans and reviews" doc.
9. Re-read and make some final edits in the doc.

Then I make my week plan, staying in the same conversation thread. And it's a similar process to the above.

I also do this for my monthly and quarterly reviews and plans.

I prefer doing this with Claude than with o3—it's a better conversation partner. That said, o3 is strong in other ways. If the week review is particularly challenging or interesting, I'll copy-paste the full conversation thread into o3 at step (6) or (7).