What a weekly review is for
A weekly review is the hinge between one week and the next. Without it, every week is a fresh blank page and the same decisions get re-made from scratch. With it, each week inherits what the last one learned.
It is not a productivity ritual for its own sake. Its only job is to make next week's plan better than it would have been.
The ten-minute version
A weekly review does not need to be long. Ten minutes is enough: read back over the week, note what slipped and why, decide what carries forward, and set the next week's priorities. Anything more elaborate tends to get skipped.
Carry forward, don't restart
The single most valuable habit is carrying unfinished work forward with context instead of letting it vanish or pile up as guilt. This is what makes planning sustainable over months rather than collapsing after one bad week.
asambl does this automatically: the next plan reads what actually happened and surfaces carryover, so the review turns directly into next week's draft, which you approve.