Create a weekly summary of my activities
This prompt leverages Cowork's ability to read and analyze your local files to compile an automatic weekly review. By scanning your notes, projects, and task files, Claude produces a structured summary with productivity metrics, project progress, and pending tasks. The result is saved directly as Markdown, ready to share with your team or archive.
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Generate a structured weekly summary of my activities for the week of [start date] to [end date].
Sources to analyze
- My notes and files in [notes folder path, e.g. ~/Notes/]
- Files recently modified on my computer (last 7 days)
- My projects folder [path, e.g. ~/Projects/]
- My task-tracking files, if any [path, e.g. ~/todo.md or ~/Tasks/]
Summary structure
1. Overview (5 lines max)
Summarize the broad strokes of my week by identifying the dominant themes.
2. Projects advanced
For each project I worked on this week:
- Project name
- Modified files (number and types)
- Summary of the main changes
- Estimated time spent (based on timestamps)
3. Completed tasks
List the tasks I checked off or marked as done in my tracking files.
4. Notes and ideas captured
Summarize the new notes created this week, grouped by theme.
5. Metrics
- Total number of files created/modified
- Most active projects (top 3)
- Most productive days
6. Next week
Identify unfinished in-progress tasks and upcoming deadlines mentioned in my notes.
Format the summary in clean Markdown. Save it to [output path, e.g. ~/Notes/weekly/week-{date}.md].
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Why this prompt works
The effectiveness comes from multi-source access: Cowork cross-references modified files, notes, and tasks to build a comprehensive overview. The 6-section structure covers all angles of a weekly review. Automatic file saving creates a searchable history.
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