Daily Planner

Open tool

Build a printable daily planner — time-blocked schedule, top priorities, today's goal, and appointments — or a blank template to fill in by hand.

A one-page daily planner: a time-blocked schedule, top priorities, a goal for the day, appointments and a notes area. Fill it in on screen and print it, or print it empty and write on it by hand.

How it works

The schedule is a column of time slots that you can generate automatically from a start time, an end time and an interval, then type into. Every other section is a set of rows or boxes you fill in.

The sheet you see on screen is what prints. On a wide screen and on paper the schedule sits on the left with the priorities, goal and appointments on the right; on a narrow screen they stack.

Everything is saved in this browser as you type.

How to use it

Under the top row of controls, set the Start and End times and the Interval, and click Generate schedule to fill in the time slots.
Type into the schedule, and fill in Top Priorities, Today's Goal, Appointments and Notes.
Pick a date in the top right if you want it printed; the day of the week is highlighted for you.
Choose a Color theme and Page width, and click Print (with 100% scale and headers and footers off).

Options & controls

Schedule generator (shown on screen only)

Start: The first time slot. Default: 06:00.
End: The last time slot. Default: 21:00. If it is earlier than the start, the schedule runs past midnight into the next morning.
Interval: The gap between slots: 15 min, 30 min, 1 hour (default) or 2 hours.
Generate schedule: Replaces every time slot below with a new set from Start to End (including End), written like “6:00 AM”. It replaces the rows and anything you typed against them, so generate first and type afterwards.

Sheet header

Title: The heading, shown in capitals. Default: “Daily Planner”.
Date: A date picker. Leave it empty for a blank template. When a date is set, the matching letter in the S M T W T F S row of circles is highlighted.

Today's Schedule

Time: The label at the start of each row — editable text, so you can write “7:30 AM”, “Lunch” or leave it blank.
Activity: The plan for that slot. Type anything.
Remove row (×): Deletes a row, on screen only.
+ Add row: Adds a row with an empty time and activity at the end of the schedule.

Right-hand sections

Top Priorities: A checklist of the day's most important tasks: each row has an empty check box for ticking by hand. Starts with four blank rows; add or remove rows as needed.
Today's Goal: A four-line box for the one thing that would make today a success.
Appointments: A checklist for meetings and commitments, four blank rows to start, with add and remove.
Notes: A free-text box across the bottom of the sheet.

Print and page settings (shared by every printable)

Color theme: Five swatches — Slate (default), Ink Blue, Forest, Sepia and Mono — that recolour the text, ruled lines and section headings on the sheet. Mono is pure black, best for black-and-white printers. The selected swatch has a ring around it.
Page width: A6 (105 mm), A5 (148 mm), B5 (176 mm), A4 (210 mm, default) or Letter (215.9 mm). This is how wide the sheet is when printed. It does not choose your paper — pick that in the print dialog — but a narrower width leaves room to print smaller cards or half-pages, and one that matches your paper fills it edge to edge. On a phone the on-screen sheet is never wider than the screen.
Print: Opens your browser's print dialog for the sheet. Only the sheet itself is printed: the buttons, pickers, remove (×) buttons, “+ Add row” links and the page-break guides are left out, and so is the grey placeholder text in empty fields.
Reset: In the title row. After you confirm a warning (“Clear this planner and start over? This can't be undone.”), it restores the title, clears the date, goal and notes, resets the times to 06:00–21:00 every hour with the schedule regenerated, sets four blank priorities and four blank appointments, and restores the Slate theme and A4 width.
Page break guides: If the sheet is longer than one page, dashed lines labelled “Page 2”, “Page 3” and so on appear on screen to show roughly where each new A4 page will start. They are an estimate to help you avoid a row being cut in half, and they never print.

Tips & guidelines

Use the hourly schedule for a typical work day, and 30 or 15 minutes for a tightly planned day. Fifteen-minute slots across a whole day make a long list that may spill onto a second page.
You are free to rewrite the Time labels: use them for “Morning”, “Afternoon”, “Evening” instead of times.
Limit Top Priorities to three to five items — a short list is more likely to get done.
To reuse the same schedule daily, leave the times and change only the date and the activities.
In the print dialog, set the scale to 100% (or “Actual size”) and turn off “Headers and footers”. Otherwise the browser shrinks the sheet and adds a date and web address to the page.
For a blank template to fill in by hand, leave the fields empty (or press Reset and confirm) and print. Empty rows print as blank lines and empty boxes.
Use Print preview first to check where the page breaks fall, and choose the paper size and orientation there.
Prefer the Mono theme when printing in black and white, so light colours do not come out too faint.

Limits

The template is one fixed layout; you can change the rows, text and colours but not the arrangement of the sections.
Check boxes are drawn empty for ticking with a pen — they cannot be ticked on screen.
The layout is designed for portrait pages.
There are no reminders or alarms — it is a paper planner.
Generate schedule always replaces the whole schedule; you cannot generate only part of a day.

Saved in your browser

The title, date, times, every schedule and list row, the goal and notes, and your theme and page-width choices are saved in this browser's local storage, on this device only. Nothing is sent anywhere. Reset clears them, and clearing this site's data in your browser does too.

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