The weekly note is a single note for each week — a home for the things that belong to the whole week rather than one meeting: priorities, a running to-do list, and notes you want near your schedule but not buried in an event. There's exactly one weekly note per week, so you always know where it is.
Open your weekly note
Open the This Week view. It pairs that week's timeline with the week's note side by side, so you can plan against what's actually on your calendar. Moving to a different week shows that week's note.
Each week's note is created the first time you open it, and it's titled automatically — for example, Week of June 8.
Start a new week
When you move into a week that doesn't have a note yet, you can choose how to begin:
- Blank — start fresh.
- Copy previous week — bring your last weekly note forward, including its layout and tasks, so recurring structure (your standing checklist, section headings, ongoing items) carries into the new week.
Copying is a deliberate choice you make, not something nocal does behind your back — each week starts exactly how you tell it to.
Recurring tasks
Inside any note, a task can be set to repeat on a daily or weekly cadence. When the new day or week begins, a repeating task unchecks itself so it's ready to do again — useful for the routines you carry in your weekly note, like "Plan the week" or "Send the Friday update." Tasks you don't mark as repeating simply stay as you left them.
It's still a normal note
The weekly note works like any other note in nocal:
- Write with markdown, the
/insert menu, and@to link events or other notes. - Pin it or file it in a folder if you want it alongside related notes.
- It saves and syncs automatically across your devices.
- It's fully searchable.