Aww: recursive retrospectives

UpdatedJuly 25, 2025

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Roberto Lupi

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Vault directory example	Content
journal	base path for the journal. I use Obsidian to write it, but any markdown editor will do.
journal/2025/Y2025.md	Yearly note. I use it for GTD-style Horizons of Focus planning.
journal/2025/01/2025-01-01.md	Daily note. I use a template that includes “Journal and events” (event tracking, populated via the Go program), “My thoughts, ideas, tasks” (free-form), “Other ideas (TIL): articles, books, links” (links to interesting articles, or kindle books, with excerpts). I track a few parameters in the frontmatter (vitals/relax/sleep/activity scores from my ringConn ring, weight and BMI, self-reported stress level).
journal/2025/weeks/2025-W01.md	Weekly note. I use it for my own manual retrospectives, answering the questions: “What went well?”, “What went wrong?”, “What was unexpected/surprising?”, “What did I learn?”, “What will I change/experiment with, to improve my life?”, “What I am grateful of?”, “Who did I talk to? Who did I not talk to, but should have?”
journal/2025/months/2025-01.md	Monthly note. I use it for my own manual retrospectives and free-form notes.
retrospectives	LLM-generated retrospectives
retrospectives/2025/r2025.md	Yearly retrospective, generated from all lower retrospectives and the yearly note.
retrospectives/2025/2025-01-01.md	Daily retrospective, generated from the daily note.
retrospectives/2025/weeks/r2025-W01.md	Weekly retrospective, generated from the daily retrospective and the weekly note.
retrospectives/2025/months/r2025-01.md	Monthly retrospective, generated from the weekly and daily retrospectives and the monthly note.

Vault directory example

Content

journal

base path for the journal. I use Obsidian to write it, but any markdown editor will do.

journal/2025/Y2025.md

Yearly note. I use it for GTD-style Horizons of Focus planning.

journal/2025/01/2025-01-01.md

Daily note. I use a template that includes “Journal and events” (event tracking, populated via the Go program), “My thoughts, ideas, tasks” (free-form), “Other ideas (TIL): articles, books, links” (links to interesting articles, or kindle books, with excerpts). I track a few parameters in the frontmatter (vitals/relax/sleep/activity scores from my ringConn ring, weight and BMI, self-reported stress level).

journal/2025/weeks/2025-W01.md

Weekly note. I use it for my own manual retrospectives, answering the questions: “What went well?”, “What went wrong?”, “What was unexpected/surprising?”, “What did I learn?”, “What will I change/experiment with, to improve my life?”, “What I am grateful of?”, “Who did I talk to? Who did I not talk to, but should have?”

journal/2025/months/2025-01.md

Monthly note. I use it for my own manual retrospectives and free-form notes.

retrospectives

LLM-generated retrospectives

retrospectives/2025/r2025.md

Yearly retrospective, generated from all lower retrospectives and the yearly note.

retrospectives/2025/2025-01-01.md

Daily retrospective, generated from the daily note.

retrospectives/2025/weeks/r2025-W01.md

Weekly retrospective, generated from the daily retrospective and the weekly note.

retrospectives/2025/months/r2025-01.md

Monthly retrospective, generated from the weekly and daily retrospectives and the monthly note.

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