Playbook

Running your Monday planning with Navi

Most people's Monday mornings are chaos. Here's a calm 30-minute routine — calendar review, Linear sweep, prioritized plan — done entirely through a Navi chat.

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If you've ever tried to plan a week on Monday at 9am, you know the shape of the problem. You open Calendar and try to read the week. You open Linear and try to remember what's stuck. You open Docs or Notion and try to find last week's plan. You cobble something together while being interrupted every two minutes. By 11am you have a plan that's half-done and already stale.

Navi compresses this. Do it all in one chat, in one window, in 30 focused minutes.

The routine, step by step

1. Review the week

Prompt Walk me through my calendar for this week. Flag anything unusual — double bookings, meetings without agendas, days with more than six meetings, meetings with VIPs that I should prep for.

Navi pulls your week, highlights the rough spots, and gives you a realistic view. This replaces the 10 minutes of squinting at the calendar grid.

2. Sweep your in-flight work

Prompt List every Linear issue assigned to me with priority High or above that hasn't moved in a week. For each, summarize what it's about and what the blocker likely is.

Two minutes later, you have a short list of things that have gone stale. You decide what to unblock, what to drop, what to hand off.

3. Pull last week's loose ends

Prompt Pull my calendar events from last week. For each meeting where I was an attendee or organizer, check if there's a meeting doc in Notion, a Linear issue updated after the meeting, or a Google Doc created after the meeting. List any meetings that have no follow-up artifact — those are the ones with open loops.

This one is a killer. The stuff that derails a week is usually last week's meetings that didn't produce a next step. Navi surfaces them.

4. Write the plan

Prompt Based on everything above — my calendar for this week, my stale Linear issues, and the meetings from last week without follow-ups — draft a one-page plan for this week. Top of page: the three most important outcomes I should drive. Below that: meetings I need to prep for, with one sentence each on what prep means. Below that: stuck work to unblock. Save it as a new page in my "Weekly plans" Notion database.

Navi assembles the plan. You read it. Edit the parts you disagree with. Now you have a shared artifact for the week instead of a vague mental model.

5. Schedule the follow-throughs

Once you know the plan, block time for it:

Prompt Block two 90-minute deep-work sessions on my calendar this week, ideally Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Title them "Deep work — week plan." Mark private.

You've spent 30 minutes. You now have: a realistic view of the week, a short list of things to unblock, a list of meetings that need prep, a written plan in Notion, and protected time on the calendar to execute it.

Make it stick: turn the routine into an agent

Once this works a few weeks in a row, you can have Navi kick off steps 1-3 automatically. Every Monday at 8am, the briefing is waiting for you when you sit down — all that's left is the synthesis.

Prompt Every Monday at 8am Pacific: (1) summarize my calendar for the week and flag unusual days, (2) list stale Linear issues I own, and (3) list last week's meetings without a follow-up artifact. Post all three in this chat.

Now your Monday routine shrinks from 30 minutes to 15 — the 15 where you actually think.

Why this beats a templated weekly planner

Static planners (Sunday night journals, Notion templates, paper notebooks) ask you to do all the retrieval — go look at your calendar, go look at your tracker, go look at your docs. Navi does the retrieval; you do the synthesis. Synthesis is the part that's worth your time.

Try this next Monday. Block a 30-minute slot, open Navi, and run the five prompts above. Finish before your first meeting and feel the rest of your week move differently.

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