One weeknote is just one week’s worth of effort, summarised. Useful! But an archive of dozens or hundreds of weeknotes, stretching back through time – months, perhaps years – is a fabulous repository of thoughts, ideas and decisions. It’s a time machine that helps the team themselves, or their bosses or stakeholders, look back over recent history to work out why and how things are as they are. Much, much more useful!
I’ve been doing weeknotes at work for over 5 years now and they really help me − in good times, I can brag. In worse times, I can look at my weekly recap and realize that it’s not empty, that my work still has values even on bad weeks. It has always helped. (It’s especially useful because when you’re remote people can forget you exist if you don’t overshare.)
I think I’m going to try to start doing weeknotes for all my work/volunteering stuff. A weekly recap of what I’ve done for Wikimedia France might be useful to share what I’m doing, make sure there are no unknowns for the team, and pass the bus test.