Plain Planner

Planners and to-do lists

Planning pages hold what you intend to do, not what you have done. Pick the page by the span of time it covers, rename the blocks or stages to your own words, and print one for the week or the day ahead.

Choosing between the week, the day and the project page

The weekly planner is for people whose days have a similar outline. The parts of the day run down the side and the weekdays across the top, leaving an open box for each part of each day. It answers the question of when something will happen, and it can start on a Monday or a Sunday.

The daily to-do list answers a different question: what has to be finished today. It is a column of lines to write on with a tick box at the end of each, and you choose how many lines the page holds. Fewer lines give more room to write; more lines suit a day of small errands.

When the work is one project with a known set of tasks, the project task tracker lists the tasks down the side and the stages across the top, such as to do, in progress and done. Each task gets a mark in the stage it has reached, so the page shows at a glance what is stuck. It works for a house move, a group assignment or a small work project alike.