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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

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Top three

Hardest one first

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

Set before you start

Logged sessions

From the pomodoro timer

Target sessionsFour to five deep sessions is a full day.

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.

Frequently asked questions

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.