The weekly reset works. What stops people is the friction of setting it up again every single week.
The same five prompts, forever
A reset you have to remember the shape of is a reset you will skip on the week you most need it. The prompts on every sheet are identical: what happened, what is still open, what can be dropped, what matters next, one thing to look forward to.
You will know them by heart within a month. That is the goal — at that point the pad is just somewhere to put the answers.
Tear-off, on purpose
A bound planner keeps a record of every week you missed, and that record is the single most common reason people stop using one. Guilt is a terrible engine.
A sheet you tear off and throw away has no history. Miss three weeks and the pad looks exactly the same as if you had not.
On the desk, not in an app
The reason this exists as a physical object when the guide is free is proximity. A pad already open on your desk on a Sunday evening asks nothing of you. An app asks you to open it, which is one more decision than an overwhelmed week has room for.
Everything in it stays free to read, always. This is the convenient version, not the real one.