planning your whole week
how this works
The goal: leave with a real plan for your week, written down in a file your agent can read and update, and a place on your computer where every future weekly plan will live.
The hardest part of planning a week is getting everything out of your head. Talking is much better at this than typing — so you will talk through your week out loud with your group, record a transcript, and then hand the transcript to your agent to turn into a plan.
set up your plans folder (3 minutes, on your own)
Tell your agent something like this:
Create a folder called weekly-plans in my personal OS. Each week's plan will be one file, named with the date it was created, like 20260726-weekly-plan.md, so the files sort in order. Add a note to my AGENTS.md saying this folder exists and that this is where my weekly plans live.
That is the whole system: one folder, one dated file per week, and a note that tells every agent where to find it.
talk through your week (5 minutes per person)
Use ChatGPT for this — it has a microphone button. Before your turn starts, open a new chat and tap the microphone, then just talk. Everything you say becomes text, so when your turn ends, your transcript is already sitting there.
Then talk about your week — everything you need to do in it. Do not organize it; just get it all out. The other two people ask questions to pull out what you would forget:
1. What is fixed on your calendar — meetings, classes, travel, family?
2. What has to be finished this week, and what happens if it is not?
3. What are you worried about?
4. What personal things will take real time — errands, appointments, people?
5. What would make this week feel like a win?
When the timer ends, switch to the next person.
Reset and restart the timer for each person. Three people, three turns.
build your plan (10 minutes, on your own)
Paste your transcript into your agent, followed by this prompt:
This is a transcript of me talking through my week. Write my weekly plan as a new dated file in my weekly-plans folder. Give it two sections: first, everything I said, kept faithfully, so the file makes sense on its own later; second, a day-by-day plan — what each day is for, what has to happen when, and where the pressure points are. Ask me about anything that is unclear before you write it.
Then read the plan and correct it. The agent will get some things wrong — a priority it overweighted, a day it overloaded. Fixing two or three of those teaches it more about your week than the transcript did.
using it during the week
The plan is not finished when you write it — it is a living file. When something changes during the week, tell your agent what happened and have it update the plan: add what you said to the first section, and revise the day-by-day plan in place. One plan per week, evolving — never a second plan for the same week.
Next week, start a new dated file in the same folder. Over time the folder becomes a record of every week — and because your agent knows where it lives, you can ask things like "what did I plan two weeks ago?" or "move everything I did not finish into next week's plan."
If you end up with a planning process you like, save it as a skill so any agent can run it with you next Sunday.