A completed example
This fictional example shows the level of detail to aim for. It is not a customer's work history.
Weekly work log Name: Priya Okafor Role: Product designer, Growth team Week of: Monday 14 September 2026 Monday - 9:30-11:00 Checkout redesign: revised error states on the payment step after last week's review - 11:30-12:00 Weekly design sync - 13:00-16:30 Checkout redesign: high-fidelity mockups for saved cards Tuesday - 9:00-10:30 Onboarding audit: walked through the current signup flow and logged friction points - 14:00-15:00 Usability session with two pilot customers (notes taken on paper) - 15:30-17:00 Onboarding audit: sorted session notes into themes Wednesday - 10:00-12:30 Saved cards: handoff call with Marco, answered spacing questions - 13:30-17:00 Icon refresh: redrew navigation icons, export waiting on brand colors Thursday - 9:00-12:00 Onboarding audit: wrote findings, about half done - 14:00-15:30 Interviewed a candidate for the junior designer role Friday - 9:30-11:00 Checkout redesign: fixed review comments from engineering - 11:00-12:00 Sprint planning - Afternoon off Finished - Saved cards mockups handed to engineering - Payment step error states approved Still open - Onboarding audit write-up, second half not started - Icon export, blocked until the brand team confirms colors Next week - Finish and share the onboarding audit by Wednesday - Start empty states for the order history page Notes - Usability session notes are still on paper and need typing up
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How to fill it in
- Fill in your name, role and the Monday date of the week at the top so each log is easy to find later.
- At the end of each day, add one line per block of work with start and end times, the project name and what you actually did.
- Include meetings, calls, interviews and offline work like paper notes, because they are the easiest things to forget by Friday.
- On Friday, list completed work under Finished and anything incomplete under Still open, with how far along it is or what is blocking it.
- Write two or three concrete Next week items with target days, then copy the blank for the following week.
Start from your actual work
On a Mac, Dayflow can help you remember the work behind the update. It drafts a timeline from screen activity. Export a date range as Markdown from Settings → Export. Review that record alongside your calendar and task tracker, then fill in the template above.
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Questions about this template
What is a weekly work log?
A weekly work log is a running record of what you worked on each day of a week, usually with times, projects and short descriptions. It ends with a summary of finished work, open work and next steps. People use it to write status updates, prepare for one-on-ones, remember what they did and spot where their time went.
Is a weekly work log the same as a timesheet?
No. A work log is your own record of what you did, written for memory and status updates. A timesheet is a formal document used for payroll, billing or client invoicing, usually approved by a manager. A log can help you fill in a timesheet accurately, but it is not an approved record of hours on its own.
How detailed should a work log entry be?
Detailed enough that someone else could tell what you did and why it mattered. A useful entry has a time range, a project name and a specific action, such as revised error states on the payment step. Avoid vague entries like worked on design. One line per block of focused work is usually enough.
Should I fill in a work log daily or at the end of the week?
Daily works best. Filling it in at the end of each day takes a few minutes and keeps times and details accurate. Waiting until Friday usually means rebuilding the week from calendar entries and memory, which misses short tasks, interruptions and offline work. Use Friday only for the Finished, Still open and Next week sections.
Can I fill in a weekly work log automatically?
Partly. Dayflow, a Mac app, drafts a timeline of your day from screen activity, and you can export a date range as Markdown to paste into a log. AI summaries can miss or misread work, so check each entry and add offline work like calls, meetings away from your desk or paper notes yourself.
What should I do with my weekly work log?
Use the Finished and Still open sections to write a status update for your manager or team, and bring the log to one-on-ones. Over several weeks it shows which projects take the most time and what keeps getting blocked. Keep old logs in one folder so you can look back during reviews or when estimating similar work.
Use the right format for the next step
- Weekly status report for a concise progress update.
- Daily work log for a record you can come back to.
- Daily standup template for yesterday, today, and blockers.
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