# My Weekly Plan and Workflow

- Canonical page: https://fze-fze.me/articles/weekly-plan-and-workflow/

After nearly three months, I finally mapped out my workflow.

## Workflow Overview

## Software

**Personal management**: Notes, Reminders, Calendar, fze's blog

**Learning platforms**: ChatGPT, Goodnotes, Baicizhan, Typora, VS Code

**Information channels**: podcasts, X, WeChat Official Accounts, Bilibili, YouTube

**Campus platforms**: WeCom, QQ, WeChat, and course platforms

## Timeline

**Deep**: focused study mode, one 40-minute round at a time, with a complete record of what was finished

**Maintain**: everyday tasks and miscellaneous work, handled in batches during the **commute**

**Habit**: tasks that need to happen every day, usually fixed items

**Explore**: subjects I do not currently have time to understand, saved for later exploration

## Work Blocks

**Before-bed block**: daily review and meditation, with **Sleep Focus** enabled

**Commute block**: getting to class, eating lunch, listening to podcasts and music, and taking in information

**Class block**: school courses, meetings, and competitions; course-platform tasks can happen here, with **Study Focus** enabled

**Study block**: 40 minutes of uninterrupted learning, with **Study Focus** enabled

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## Management Flow

## Notes

### Structure

```
iCloud/
├── Quick Notes/       # Capture information on the fly
│
├── Notes/             # Urgent files and tasks that will be needed soon
│
├── ⚙️ Reminders/      # Smart folders that jump directly into Reminders
│
├── 2026/              # Management folders for the current year
│   ├── Spring 2026/   # Plans for campus courses
│   ├── Goals/         # Skills and knowledge I want to learn on my own
│   ├── Logs/          # Temporary essays and fragments
│   └── Files/         # Things that may not be needed
│
└── Recently Deleted/  # Kept for one month
```

### Input / Output System

Input streams:

- **Commute block** gets ideas from **information channels** and sends them to **Quick Notes**.
- **Study block**, when I do not have a computer, turns essays and fragments into **2026 / Logs**.
- **Commute block** receives assignments and notices from **campus platforms** and sends them to **Quick Notes**.

Output streams:

- **Deep block** takes assignments and notices from **Quick Notes** and moves them into **Reminders**.
- **Deep block** takes ideas from **Quick Notes**, turns them into essays and fragments, and stores them in **2026 / Logs**.
- **Before-bed block** exports finished writing from **2026 / Logs** to **fze's blog**.

## Blog

### Writing Structure

```
fze's journal/
├── articles/  # Long-form essays and deep thinking
│   ├── About Me (pinned)
│   └── ...
│
├── essays/    # Short reflections and fragments
│
└── plans/     # Transparent weekly plans
```

### Maintenance Approach

- Articles and essays: the output of thinking something through.

- Plans: a weekly outline for study and work.

  Every Sunday, review the previous week and set three main threads for the week ahead.

## Reminders

## Calendar