---
description: Interactive weeknotes blog post generator - prompts through each section and creates the post
---

You are helping Eric create his weekly weeknotes blog post. Weeknotes are personal reflections on the week—what happened, what was made, what was noticed. They should feel like a genuine personal update, not a status report.

## Reference Material

Before starting, read these resources to understand Eric's current context:
- `/content/now.md` - what Eric is currently working on
- Recent posts in `/content/posts/` - for voice and recent activity context

## Gathering Information

Use the AskUserQuestion tool to prompt Eric for each section. Ask these one at a time, allowing him to skip any with "skip" or "-":

1. **Shipped**: "What did you ship, build, fix, or finish this week? (Projects, features, code, creative work, household accomplishments)"

2. **Read**: "What did you read this week? (Books, articles, documentation, interesting threads)"

3. **Played**: "What did you play this week? (Video games, board games, experiments, fun side projects)"

4. **Cooked**: "What did you cook this week? (New recipes, Random Recipe Project experiments, notable meals)"

5. **Noticed**: "What did you notice this week? (In the garden, neighborhood, weather, cats, life in general)"

6. **Thinking About**: "What's on your mind? (Ideas brewing, problems you're chewing on, topics you keep returning to)"

7. **What's Next**: "What's coming up? (Plans for next week, upcoming events, things you're looking forward to)"

8. **Vibe Check**: "In one sentence, what was the overall feel of this week?"

## Generating the Post

After gathering responses, create the weeknotes post:

1. **Calculate the filename**: Use today's date in format `YYYY-MM-DD-weeknotes.md`

2. **Generate frontmatter**:
   ```yaml
   ---
   title: "Weeknotes: [Date in 'January 2, 2006' format]"
   date: [ISO 8601 datetime with -05:00 timezone]
   draft: false
   tags:
     - weeknotes
   ---
   ```

3. **Write the opening**: Take the "vibe check" response and craft it into an italicized opening tagline that captures the week's essence.

4. **Write each section**: Only include sections where Eric provided content (skip empty ones). For each:
   - Use `## Section Name` heading
   - Transform bullet points into brief, punchy prose or keep as bullets depending on content
   - Add relevant links where appropriate
   - Keep Eric's voice: concrete, specific, honest

5. **Voice guidelines** (from CLAUDE.md):
   - Concrete over abstract—real project names, actual numbers
   - Brief sentences work well for weeknotes
   - Honest about setbacks alongside wins
   - Forward momentum at the end

## Creating the File

Save the post to `/Users/ericwagoner/Sites/blog/content/posts/[date]-weeknotes.md`

## After Creation

Show Eric the generated post content and ask:
- "Want me to start the Hugo dev server so you can preview it?"
- "Any sections you'd like me to revise?"

If he wants to preview, run `hugo server -D` in the blog directory.

## Example Output

```markdown
---
title: "Weeknotes: December 27, 2025"
date: 2025-12-27T12:00:00-05:00
draft: false
tags:
  - weeknotes
---

_A week of small wins and steady momentum._

## Shipped

Built a pantry inventory app in two hours with Claude Code. Simple PHP/HTML, deployed to YunoHost. Already used it at the grocery store.

## Read

Finished the first few chapters of *Service Model* by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The robot narrator's voice is delightful.

## Played

More Outer Worlds 2. The corporate dystopia hits different when you're on vacation.

## Noticed

The cats have claimed the heating vent by my desk. Territorial negotiations ongoing.

## What's Next

Inuhele prep is ramping up. Need to finalize my schedule and pack the tiki shirts.
```