Weekly Review
Look at the week that ended, decide what the next one holds, and commit — on the day your week actually ends.
The Daily Plan decides a day. The Weekly Review decides a week — and it asks a different question: not "will this fit?" but "does next week serve what I'm actually trying to do?"
It runs in two halves. The week that ended is evidence, frozen and read-only. The week that starts is a proposal, and nothing about it is a fact until you commit.
When it appears
On the day your week ends — Sunday if your week starts on Monday, Friday if it starts on Saturday. Fokus reads this from your start-of-week setting, so it lands where your week actually finishes rather than on a fixed day.
Why the end, not the start
A review on the first morning of the new week would be reviewing a week that isn't over and committing to one already underway — and it would land on the same morning as your daily plan, which is a different decision at a different altitude.
Your weekly report email and your Telegram nudge arrive on the same day for the same reason.
The invitation disappears once you've committed the week. It's an invitation, and the ritual is done.
The week that ended
Every figure names the sample it came from. A week is a small dataset — four closed evenings out of seven is a normal week, not a broken one — so anything below its floor says "not enough to say" instead of inventing a confident number.
- Coverage — which days you committed to a plan, and which evenings you closed out. They're counted separately, because they're separate acts; only days with both can say whether what you agreed to got done.
- Commitments kept — how much of what you planned you finished, over those days alone.
- Estimate drift — how far over or under your estimates you ran, signed. "20% over" tells you which way to correct; "80% accurate" doesn't.
- Where the time went — your buckets, measured rather than summed, plus time that was booked and never tracked. That last one is unknown, not idle.
- The work that keeps moving — the task you've pushed forward most without finishing.
The week that starts
A week has no timeline, so the shape here is a capacity shelf: one bar of the time you actually made available — not 168 hours, and not your evenings and weekends — filled by what claims it.
Work that doesn't fit is drawn outside the bar. That's deliberate: "doesn't fit" should be something you can see, not a number you have to believe.
Underneath, the work competing for next week is listed in the order the scheduler would take it. Keep one in and watch another fall out, in the same motion — the item that got displaced says so. The order isn't decorative: the first thing to drop here is the first thing the scheduler would defer.
Your goals
Each running objective shows what next week actually gives it — "2h planned next week", or "Nothing planned against it". The shelf's committed portion is split by the goal each part serves, in that goal's colour, with work that serves no goal left grey.
Most work serves no goal, and that's reported as fact rather than as a failing. Routine and assigned work is still work.
Rolling an objective forward moves it to the next period — and because its work leaves next week entirely, the shelf moves when you roll it. The two decisions on this surface are one decision underneath.
When a goal gets nothing
A goal that no work claims next week says so plainly, and offers to break itself down. Fokus reads the goal and proposes a handful of concrete tasks — you pick the ones worth keeping, and only those are created. Nothing is added until you say so.
The tasks arrive already attached to the goal, so the moment you accept them the goal stops reading as empty and starts competing for next week's hours like everything else.
When work serves a goal you never linked
Most tasks never get connected to a goal, which is why the review can end up saying that half your week serves nothing in particular. Where there is unattached work, Fokus will look at it and propose which of your goals each task actually advances.
Every proposal says why — because it looks like the goal's other work, because it shares a tag, because it sits in the same bucket, or simply because it reads like the goal. Where it was less sure, it says that too, and it tells you how many tasks it could not match rather than quietly showing you only its hits.
Everything is accepted by default; the work is spotting the one that is wrong. Uncheck it and it is dismissed for good — that task will never be proposed for that goal again.
Committing
Commit the week does exactly two things:
- Pins what you kept, so the scheduler places it inside the week rather than quietly moving it out again.
- Rolls the objectives you let slide.
An objective that refuses to roll — a completed one, say — is reported without losing the rest of the commit.
Once per week
Committing the same week twice is refused. It isn't a repeat: rolling an objective advances its period every time it runs, so a second commit would carry a quarterly goal two quarters forward.
If you've already committed on another device, Fokus tells you it's done rather than showing an error.
On your phone
The Weekly Review works on mobile — the shelf, the goals, keeping and rolling, and committing. A week is a bar and two lists, so nothing about it needs a wide screen.
Breaking a goal down and reviewing proposed goal links work on the phone too. Both are a list you read and tick, so neither needs a wider screen.
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