weekly planner template

Choose meaningful priorities and make room for the week you actually have.

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A completed HeadTidy weekly planner showing essential outcomes, focused work, home and energy, and protected buffer time. — Fixed commitments come first, then three outcomes and a visible buffer for the week that actually happens.

What’s included

A small set of planning branches
Priority and next-action prompts
A calm end-of-week review

Plan capacity before ambition

Place appointments, deadlines, care and travel first. Then choose up to three outcomes that fit the space left. The Work and Home branches hold context; Must happen stays deliberately small enough to scan.

Review instead of rolling everything forward

At the end of the week, complete, reschedule, delegate or release each unfinished item. Automatic carry-over makes stale intentions look current and hides whether the plan was unrealistic.

Worked example

If Thursday is already travel and Friday has a deadline, the map should not pretend there are five open workdays. Put “send draft by Friday” under Must happen, keep “research new supplier” under Soon, and leave a genuine buffer.

How to use this template

Start
Place fixed commitments before adding intentions.
Sort
Choose no more than three meaningful outcomes.
Move
End the week by keeping, changing or releasing unfinished work.