BoardSnap is an iOS app that converts whiteboard photos into clean summaries and action items in about ten seconds. This weekly priorities template gives individuals and teams a five-minute Monday ritual: three priorities, written on a board, snapped into a task list that drives the week.
Use this at the start of every week, Monday morning, before email. The ritual matters as much as the template: five minutes with a marker at the whiteboard creates more intentional focus than an hour of inbox triage.
Works for individuals, small teams doing a brief weekly sync, and managers who want a lightweight check-in format that surfaces priorities without scheduling overhead.
The single most important thing this week. If you only accomplish one thing, this is it. Write a specific outcome, not an activity: 'Ship the onboarding modal' not 'Work on onboarding.' Specific outcomes are completable; activities are endless.
The second most important thing. Closely behind Priority 1 in importance. If Priority 1 is done by Wednesday, Priority 2 is what you move to without needing to decide. Already decided.
The third priority, important, but not at the cost of the first two. If it slips to next week because something urgent came up, that's acceptable. Write it anyway, naming it makes it real and prevents it from falling off the radar entirely.
A small section below the priorities: what does this week depend on that's outside your control? A code review from someone else, a client response, a third-party API. Name the dependency and the contact. If the dependency is blocked, one of your priorities may need to change.
One row at the bottom: what didn't get done last week that still matters? Write it here, either it becomes Priority 2 or 3, or you explicitly decide it doesn't matter and cross it out. Don't let it invisibly haunt the week.
The ritual only works if it happens before the reactive work starts. Set a recurring calendar block: Monday 8 to 8:05 AM, marker in hand at the whiteboard. Five minutes. Three priorities. Done.
Phrase Priority 1 as if it's already done: 'Onboarding modal shipped and in review.' Writing it as a completed state creates a mental image of the finish line.
Before writing Priority 2 and 3, look at last week's board. If you still have it in BoardSnap, pull it up. Was the carry-over actually important? If it slipped twice in a row, it's probably not Priority 2, it's a backlog item.
Name anything that could block progress before it blocks progress. Send the dependency-resolution request today, not Thursday.
Open BoardSnap, point at the board, and snap. BoardSnap AI reads the priorities and dependencies, classifies each as open/in-progress/done based on any status markers on the board, and produces a clean weekly action list in under ten seconds.
Drop the BoardSnap output into your team's Slack or keep it in your BoardSnap project. Mid-week check-ins become a ten-second board review instead of a status call.
Notion, Linear, and Asana are great at tracking everything. They're bad at forcing the decision of what matters most this week. A whiteboard with a marker and three slots is better at prioritization because it's physically constrained.
BoardSnap turns the constraint into a digital artifact. Your three priorities, written in under five minutes, land in your BoardSnap project as a dated action list. At end of week, they're your personal retro: did you ship Priority 1? What got in the way?
Both work. Individual weekly priorities are a personal focus tool. Team weekly priorities are a lightweight standup alternative, three priorities per team, written on a shared board, snapped on Monday, and referenced all week instead of running a daily sync.
You're not supposed to. The constraint is the feature. If everything is important, nothing is, you end up reactive and fragmented. Write the top three, put everything else in a 'parking lot' column to the right, and commit to the first three. Revisit the parking lot on Thursday if you're ahead.
Open your BoardSnap project and tap the weekly priorities board. Use the AI chat (Pro feature) to ask 'What's still open from Monday?', BoardSnap will reference the board and tell you which of the three priorities haven't been checked off yet.
The free tier includes one project and 30 boards, plenty for a month of weekly priority boards. Pro is $9.99/month or $69.99/year and adds unlimited boards and AI chat.
No exporting, no transcription. Snap the board, get the action plan.