A Simple Weekly Planning Checklist

A short, genuinely free checklist — no signup, no software required.

Before planning a new operational week, run through these five questions:

1. What's still open from last week? Carry forward only what's genuinely unfinished, not everything that wasn't checked off.
2. What's recurring this week that always recurs? Separate the predictable work from the week's actual variables.
3. What's the one task that, if missed, causes real downstream cost? Identify it before the week starts, not after it's missed.
4. Who else does this touch? Note any handoff points before they become surprises.
5. What would "done" look like by Friday? Write it down — a vague week rarely ends cleanly.

This is the same thinking behind Odoino's Weekly Operations Tracker — a structured system for exactly this kind of recurring planning, built from real production and operations experience.