Personal & Lifestyle
Daily Planner Templates
A planner earns its place by making you choose. These four put three priorities at the top - not ten - and give the rest of the day an hourly column beside them, because a list without times is a wish list.
Fill it in here and print it done, or print it blank and write by hand. The hours are yours to change; a day that starts at seven and one that starts at eleven are both just lines in a box.
Pair it with a monthly calendar for the fixed dates and a to-do list for everything not tied to a time.
Daily Plan
Top three
Call the printer about the flyers
Walk before it gets dark
The day
09:00
11:00
13:00
15:00
17:00
19:00
Deep work - payments doc
Standup, then email
Lunch, out of the house
Calls
Errands and printer
Dinner
Notes
Daily Plan
Top three
Call the printer about the flyers
Walk before it gets dark
The day
09:00
11:00
13:00
15:00
17:00
19:00
Deep work - payments doc
Standup, then email
Lunch, out of the house
Calls
Errands and printer
Dinner
Notes
Daily Plan
Top three
Call the printer about the flyers
Walk before it gets dark
The day
09:00
11:00
13:00
15:00
17:00
19:00
Deep work - payments doc
Standup, then email
Lunch, out of the house
Calls
Errands and printer
Dinner
Notes
Daily Plan
Top three
Call the printer about the flyers
Walk before it gets dark
The day
09:00
11:00
13:00
15:00
17:00
19:00
Deep work - payments doc
Standup, then email
Lunch, out of the house
Calls
Errands and printer
Dinner
Notes
Common questions
Why only three priorities?
Because a day rarely has more. A list of ten leaves you at the end of it having done the easy six, and the planner has taught you nothing.
Can I use this as a weekly planner?
Change the date line to a week and use the hours column for days instead. The layout does not care what the left column holds.
Should I print it blank or filled in?
Blank if you plan in the morning with a pen, filled in if you plan the night before at a keyboard. Both work; doing neither is what does not.