Experiments

Weekly goal plannerThe week is where
goals are actually won.

A week is the smallest unit that contains a real piece of work and the largest one you can plan without guessing. Days are too short to hold anything meaningful and too disrupted to keep a plan; months are long enough that you can lose three weeks inside one and only find out at the end.

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The week

The three outcomes

Finished by Friday. If everything else went wrong and these happened, it was a good week.

OutcomeDayDone

The seven days

One priority a day, plus whatever else has to happen.

The one that mattersAlsoDone
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

The week's habits

The handful of things that are supposed to happen most days.

MTWTFSSDone0/70/70/70/7

Friday

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✦ How to use it

Three things that make it work.

1
Three outcomes, not five

Written as finished things. "Draft sent" rather than "work on draft".

2
Put them in days

An outcome with no day attached will lose every argument with whatever is urgent on Wednesday.

3
Close it on Friday

Two lines. What moved and what you are carrying, which is next week's plan already half written.

The shape here is three outcomes and seven days. Three, because a week that claims five priorities has none. The daily rows are for what the outcomes actually require, and the Friday review at the bottom exists so that a bad week produces information rather than guilt.

Fill it in on Sunday or Monday morning, then close it out on Friday. It saves in this browser, so the same page carries the whole week.

✦ The limit

A plan is not a record.

This page holds what you intend. It cannot tell you what you did, because nothing on it knows whether the checkpoint on the fourteenth happened, whether the habit ran for nine days or two, or which goal has quietly not moved since March. That is the honest limit of every template, printed or otherwise, and if it has never bothered you then this one is yours for free for good.

EvyOS is the same structure with the work recorded against it. Send this sheet across and the goals, checkpoints and habits arrive as real records with their dates — then progress comes from what you tick off rather than from you remembering to come back and update a slider.

Questions

Weekly goal planner, answered.

Sunday evening or first thing Monday, in about ten minutes, and then again for five minutes on Friday. The Friday half is the one people skip and the one that makes the following Monday take ten minutes instead of thirty.
Because a week has roughly three slots that survive contact with everything else. A list of seven priorities is a list of no priorities: when Wednesday goes wrong, nothing on it is protected, because nothing on it was ever chosen over the rest.
Write what happened in the Friday box and carry the rest. Two consecutive weeks where nothing moves is a signal about the goal or the calendar, not about your character — and it is only visible if you keep filling the sheet in on the bad weeks.
Yes. Download PDF prints the layout with whatever you have typed, so an empty one prints empty and you can run off a term's worth.
The three outcomes should each be a piece of something longer. If you cannot say which goal an outcome serves, that is worth noticing — either the goal is missing or the outcome is.

Keep the plan.
And the record of doing it.

Goals, projects, tasks, habits and skills in one system, with the work logged against what it belonged to.

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