Weekly Planner Template

What this weekly planner template is

A weekly planner template is one page for the whole week. It holds the seven days, a short list of what would make the week count, and a place for the notes that do not belong on a single day. This page is that sheet, already open: a free weekly planner you type into, instead of a file you have to copy into another app before it is useful.

Choose the week from the date field, or step with the previous and next buttons. The week can start on Monday or on Sunday. Tasks stay on their dates, so a note you put on Wednesday is still on Wednesday after you change the start day. The draft is saved in this browser as you type. Come back to the same address on the same device and the week is still there. Another browser, or a private window, starts empty.

How to use this weekly planner template

1. Choose the week. Pick the week, and set the first day to Monday or Sunday.
2. Set the top 3. Write the three outcomes that would make the week a success.
3. Plan the days. Add tasks to each day. Check them off, or drag a task to another day.
4. Name roles and big rocks. Switch to Roles and Big Rocks, add a role, and add the big rock for that role.
5. Keep a copy. Print the page, or download a PDF, a PNG, or Markdown.

Use this template weekly planner on a phone or a laptop. The vertical layout stacks the seven days, which is the easier read on a narrow screen. The horizontal layout is the classic spread: one column for each day, the shape most printable weekly planners use. Both layouts keep the same tasks. Drag a task by the handle, or choose the day in Move, when it belongs somewhere else. Checking a box marks it done without deleting it.

A printable weekly planner PDF

Blank PDF (A4) and Blank PDF (Letter) are empty sheets for the week you have open: day names, a top 3, ruled lines, a notes band, and a page for roles. Print one when you want to write by hand. Filled PDF (A4) and Filled PDF (Letter) use the text on the page now. The weekly planner template PDF is landscape, in A4 or US Letter. If a day runs past the lines on the first page, the rest continues on the next page.

GoodNotes PDF and the PNG use a portrait iPad page, 768 by 1024 points, the same proportion as the Cornell notes template on this site. The PNG is drawn at three times that resolution, 2304 by 3072 pixels, so the lines stay fine when you zoom in and write over them. Import either file as a notebook page. The PNG is the first page only. Use the PDF when the week runs longer than a page. Markdown is the same week as a note: a title, the top 3, a heading for each day with checkboxes, the roles and big rocks, and the notes.

Roles and big rocks

Stephen Covey’s weekly planning starts from roles, not from a pile of tasks. A role is a part of your life for this week. A big rock is the result in that role that should happen before the small tasks fill the hours. The Roles & Big Rocks mode is that pass, and it is the Covey weekly planner on this page: name the roles, put a big rock under each one, and check a rock off when it is done. Switch back to Days and the seven-day list is unchanged. Downloads include both, so the rocks are not dropped because you were looking at the days.

Put the top 3 down before the errands

The top 3 is not a second task list. It is the three outcomes you would still care about on Friday if half the small tasks slipped. Write those first. The day columns are for the rest: calls, errands, and the steps that serve a big rock. A weekly planner template works when the short list stays short.