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Weekly Review

I use Akiflow to capture everything I need to do, from major projects to quick thoughts and small tasks. I’d love a structured review feature similar to the one in OmniFocus.

A review workflow would help me trust that anything I quickly capture will resurface at the appropriate time. It would also make it easier to remove outdated tasks, reduce noise, and keep projects relevant and actionable.

Ideally, the feature would include:

  • A dedicated Review view showing every project that is due for review, along with a badge displaying the number remaining.

  • A customizable review cadence for each project—for example, weekly for active projects, monthly for less urgent ones, or annually for long-term goals.

  • A focused workflow that lets me open each project, inspect its tasks, add or update actions, and remove anything no longer relevant.

  • A “Mark as reviewed” button that records the review, schedules the project’s next review according to its cadence, and removes it from the current queue.

  • A clear way to move through the queue one project at a time until the review is complete.

I know it’s possible to review projects manually, but the value of a dedicated system is that it tracks what needs attention and when. That structure creates confidence that tasks won’t disappear into the system—even when they were entered quickly just to get them out of my head.

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  • Dodge

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    Sep 26

    I love this idea of reviewing and upgrading the Weekly Review! The structure suggested here would be great for me, too. It’s so easy to lose track of tasks or to have the app get really bloated. Also meaningful would be these two:

    A. To add Weekly Objectives which multiple tasks could support. We can create “goals,” which are beautifully colored, but they still function like single tasks — and that’s not what larger objectives or goals are. And

    B.) to help us bring the journaling prompt into our flow in a more helpful way so it’s not just an afterthought to one side. One suggestion would be a simple option to copy the three questions at each stage into the clipboard so we can paste them quickly into our Notes app and jump straight into reflecting on the week. Are there other ways?

    Thanks Akiflow team!

  • Julie

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    Sep 23

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    Merged request

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    4 votes

    Weekly Review by project

    The way I personnaly like to proceed

    Review the projects one by one, add tasks, mark priorities, plan the weeks or day

    Then only I run the weelly planning command, otherwise it is a just of long cluster of tasks and it's hard to make sense of eveything

    • Cecile C. Martinez

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      Apr 13

      Hi Julie, that’s a great suggestion. I like the project-by-project weekly review flow before planning. We don’t support that structured step yet, but for now tasks are organized across Inbox, This Week, This Month, and Someday regardless of which project they belong to as long as they’re unscheduled or added on any of those list, prioritize them first then plan but I understand how cumbersome the current set up is. Appreciate you sharing this really helpful feedback.