Weekly Review

Your weekly review should reflect
what actually happened.

Most people do their weekly review by scanning their inbox and calendar, reconstructing the week from memory. That's not a review — it's an approximation built on selective recall. Memory surfaces what was stressful, not what was true.

PULSE gives you the real picture: where your time went, how your layers shifted, how your cadence held — calculated automatically from your calendar. Not what you remember about the week. What the week actually was.

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The gap in most weekly reviews.

You're working from memory.

Without a system that tracked the actual week, your review is based on what you remember, not what happened. Memory is selective — it surfaces the most recent and most stressful events, not an accurate distribution of where your time went.

No context for your commitments.

You know what's on next week's calendar. What you don't know is whether you have the capacity for it — because you have no data on how last week actually went. Commitments made without context are guesses.

Patterns are invisible.

A single week looks random. It takes four to eight weeks of data to see a pattern — whether your focus hours are trending down, whether your work layer is systematically crowding personal time. Most weekly reviews don't have that data.

PULSE Weekly by Tempo

The week, as it actually happened.

PULSE calculates your actual layer distribution, cadence completion rate, meeting hours, and focus hours — then compares to prior weeks to surface the patterns a single-week snapshot can't show. The weekly review your system has always needed.

A standard weekly review asks you to recall where time went. PULSE calculates it. Every event on your calendar, assigned to its layer, counted toward a real distribution. Every scheduled cadence block, marked complete or missed, rolled into a single rate.

The comparison to prior weeks is what turns data into insight. One week at 68% work layer is a data point. Four weeks trending upward is a pattern worth acting on.

PULSE generates the summary automatically. Your weekly review becomes a five-minute read of what actually happened — not a thirty-minute reconstruction effort.

PULSE Summary
Week of Feb 24
Work layer
68%
↑ 12% vs prior week
Personal layer
15%
↓ 8% vs prior week
Focus hours
4.5h
Cadence completion
71%

Work layer grew significantly this week. Personal time was compressed. 3 of 5 deep work blocks held.

What a data-grounded weekly review
actually looks like.

Four questions. All of them answered automatically, from your actual calendar.

How did I actually spend my time?

Layer breakdown by week — work, personal, health, whatever layers you've defined. Not estimated. Calculated from your actual calendar.

Did my cadence hold?

Percentage of scheduled cadence blocks you completed this week. The difference between a planned week and a lived one, expressed as a single number.

Where did focus go?

Focus hours versus meeting hours, compared to prior weeks. A declining focus ratio is one of the earliest indicators that something is drifting.

Is the pattern healthy?

Trends across four or more weeks surfaced automatically. Not a snapshot — a trajectory. PULSE shows you whether this week is an outlier or a continuation.

What you get that you don't have now.

Feature
Standard Calendar
Tempo
Shows time breakdown by category
Tracks meeting vs. focus hours
Compares this week to prior weeks
Shows cadence completion rate
Generates data-grounded weekly prompts
Surfaces multi-week patterns automatically

Your weekly review is only as good
as the data behind it.

PULSE builds that data layer automatically — no manual tracking, no reconstruction.

Connect your calendar in two minutes. Every week, PULSE calculates your layer distribution, cadence rate, and focus hours — then compares to prior weeks so the pattern is visible before you even start the review.

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