WK46: Why I Organize by Weeks, Not Days
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WK46: Why I Organize by Weeks, Not Days
Federico likes to poke fun at my obsession with the week number. For context, he’s forever running into YAML metadata or titles of documents I create that reference the week number. From the outside looking in, coming across a “2025-WK46” in a document may look a little weird, I’ll admit. However, from an organizational standpoint, it’s great.
My obsession with week numbers started in Obsidian. Searching for documents by date is often one of the easiest ways to find something, but the trouble is that I generate a lot of documents. Searching by month returns too many documents, and searching by a single date is too precise because my work isn’t organized to that extent. I may have weekly deadlines that rarely move, such as when a podcast is published or this newsletter goes out, but the timing of when I start preparing the documents related to those things varies week to week.