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Daily planner

Plan one day at a time: three important tasks, the appointments that box in your hours, a focus target, and a short review before you close the day. Everything stays in this browser's local storage.

Daily plan

Today's plan

0 of 0 important tasks done, 0 focus sessions logged.

Top three

Hardest one first
1
2
3

Three is the ceiling, not the target. If the first one is genuinely hard, one is a good day.

Appointments

Sorted by time
No fixed commitments. The whole day is yours to spend.

Focus goal

0 of 4 sessions
Target sessions
4
Set before you start
Logged sessions
0
From the focus timers

Task list

Edit in Tasks
Nothing queued for this date. Add next actions in Tasks.

Notes

Anything that comes up

End of day

Two minutes, before you close

How to plan a day

Pick your three most important tasks the night before, while today is still fresh and tomorrow is still abstract. Morning planning competes with morning energy, and the plan you write at 9am tends to be the plan your inbox wrote for you.

Put the hardest task first. Difficulty does not shrink by waiting, and the easy items expand to fill whatever room you give them. If the first task scares you a little, that is usually the right one.

Keep the list honest. A plan with nine items is a wish list, and finishing four of them still feels like failure. Three real tasks plus the appointments you cannot move is a day you can actually finish, which is the point: a plan you complete teaches you what you can commit to next time.

Close the day with the review box. Note what got in the way while you still remember it, then set up tomorrow before you shut the laptop. See the research notes for the studies behind hardest-first and closing rituals.

What the planner pulls in, and what it writes back

The task list on the right is not a second list to maintain. It shows everything sitting in next actions, anything whose due date is the day you are looking at, and anything already late as of that day, with the late items first, then high priority, then alphabetical. Editing happens in the task manager; this page only shows and completes.

Ticking a task here marks it done against the date on screen rather than against today. That is deliberate, because filling in yesterday evening's plan on Wednesday morning should record the work on the day it happened, but it does mean a stray tick while browsing last week quietly backdates a completion. The figure beside each task is sessions logged against its estimate, and the timer icon opens the pomodoro timer with that task already selected.

The logged sessions count is read the same way: it is the number of focus sessions the timer recorded for the date you are viewing, so it fills in by itself while you work and shows zero on any day you did not use the timer. The target beside it is per day, so a lighter Friday can be planned as a lighter Friday instead of failing against a number you set on Monday.

Frequently asked questions

Can I plan several days ahead?

Yes. Every date has its own page, and Previous, Next and the date field move between them. Plan tomorrow jumps forward one day and puts the cursor in the first task box, which is the fastest way to end the day. Nothing is copied forward, so an unfinished task has to be rewritten or left in the task manager to resurface on its own.

What does Print leave out?

The site header and footer, the date navigation, the buttons and everything below the plan. What lands on the page is the date, the top three with their boxes, the appointments, the focus target and its progress, the task list, your notes and the review box, printed in black on white.

Does the plan follow me to another device?

No. Plans are keyed by date in this browser's local storage, alongside the tasks and the focus log, so a second computer or a private window starts blank. Printing, or copying the text out by hand, is the only way to move a day somewhere else.

How many tasks should a daily plan have?

Three important tasks, plus whatever small admin fits around them. The limit is not arbitrary: most people have a few hours of genuinely productive time in a day once meetings, email and recovery are subtracted, and three substantial tasks is roughly what that buys. If you routinely finish all three by lunch, they are not the important ones.

Should I plan the night before or in the morning?

The night before, in most cases. You still have the context of the day you just worked, the decisions are cheap because you are not about to act on them, and you start the next morning without spending your freshest hour deciding what to do. Morning planning works if your priorities are set by things that only arrive overnight.

What is a realistic focus goal?

Four to five deep sessions is a lot, not a baseline. Research on deliberate practice found that even elite performers rarely sustain more than about four hours of hard focused work per day, and they build up to it over years. If you are hitting eight sessions daily, either the sessions are shallow or you are borrowing against tomorrow.

What if the plan falls apart by 10am?

Rewrite it rather than abandoning it. Move the untouched tasks to tomorrow, note in the end-of-day box what actually consumed the time, and look for the pattern after a week. Days that derail the same way every time are a scheduling problem, not a willpower problem.

Related tools

Task managerThe full list this planner reads from, with projects, due dates and estimatesPomodoro timerRun the focus sessions that count towards today's goalGet It DoneCapture, decide and pick the one task that matters mostPrintable planner templateA blank version to print for the week ahead