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Weekly planner
A one-page, undated week view with a ruled box for each day and a checklist for the week's priorities. It is for anyone who wants to see the whole week at a glance and write plans by hand.
- Type your details or print blank
- Print or PDF, Letter or A4
- Free, no sign-up
On this page
What prints
The page is portrait. At the top is the heading, Weekly Planner unless you typed your own, with a Week of line beside it for the date of the first day. Below that sit eight boxes in two columns and four rows. Seven are day boxes, each with the day's name over ruled lines for appointments, errands and reminders. The eighth box is Priorities this week, and instead of ruled lines it has a column of checkboxes.
Nothing is dated, so you can print a stack and fill in the dates as you go. There are no hour slots. If you want times down the side, the weekly schedule is the better fit.
The settings
- Heading. A title of your own, 40 characters at most. Blank keeps the printed default.
- Planner. This page opens on the weekly planner. The other choices switch to the daily, hourly, weekly schedule and monthly layouts.
- Week starts on. Sunday or Monday. This changes the order of the day boxes, so Sunday sits first or last.
The hour range and time-slot settings do not apply to this layout, so they do not appear when it is selected.
Using the boxes
Because each day gets the same amount of room, the page rewards short entries. Write the thing and the time in a few words, such as "Dentist 3:30", and keep the details elsewhere. Anything that needs a longer note belongs on the priorities list or on a separate page.
Fill in the priorities box first, before you touch the days. Three to five checkboxes is plenty. Then place each priority on a day that has room for it. A day box that is already full is a signal to move something, not to write smaller.
For a rough sense of how to divide a week's work, the UNC Learning Center has a collection of planning and time-management guides written for students. Most of it applies to anyone.
Worked example: a week with two evening commitments
Say you start the week on Monday. At the top, write the date of that Monday on the Week of line.
In the priorities box, the items might be: finish the quarterly report draft, book the car inspection, return library books, and call Mom on Sunday. Then spread them out. Monday gets "Report outline, 2 hrs". Tuesday has "Soccer practice 6:00" and "Library books". Wednesday gets "Car inspection 8:15". Thursday is left nearly blank on purpose, because a spare day absorbs what slipped. Friday holds "Report draft due noon". Saturday has "Groceries" and "Birthday party 2:00". Sunday has "Call Mom".
At the end of the week, check off what got done. Anything unchecked moves to next week's priorities box, and you decide whether it still deserves a spot.
Pairing it with other pages
Use the monthly planner to see where the busy weeks fall, and copy those commitments to the weekly page as they approach. The to-do list template is useful when your priorities box overflows.
Sources
- UNC Learning Center: Tips and tools learningcenter.unc.edu