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Check out a video walkthrough of weekly and daily planning

See weekly and daily planning in action.
Weekly and daily planning are the short, recurring routines that turn your longer-term plans into action. Weekly planning pulls your quarterly milestones into the week ahead; daily planning decides what you actually do today.
These flows work best once you’ve made a quarterly plan, so there’s something to pull forward. See Plan your Year and Quarter.

Starting a planning session

There are three ways to begin:
  • Press Cmd + B on the Day or Week screen.
  • Use the planning reminder at the top of the screen when it appears.
  • Open the Day or Week screen and start the flow from there.

Weekly planning

Weekly planning takes about ten minutes. The flow walks you through:
  1. Review the past week — see what you completed and what’s still open.
  2. Pull milestones forward — bring the quarterly milestones you want to move on into this week.
  3. Add what’s urgent — capture the time-sensitive items the week will demand.
  4. Time-block on the calendar — drag the week’s priorities onto your calendar to protect time for them before meetings fill it up.
  5. Leave some slack — don’t fill every hour; reserve room for the inevitable urgent task.
  6. Write a weekly reflection — a free-form note on how the week is shaping up.

Daily planning

Daily planning takes about three minutes, every morning. The flow walks you through:
  1. Review yesterday — what got done, what’s still open, and a moment to reflect.
  2. Choose today’s tasks — pull from this week’s tasks, anything rolled over, and your important-flagged items.
  3. Schedule the day — a final pass to lay today out in time, scheduling tasks onto the calendar where it helps.
Keep the Day screen as your home base. When new tasks arrive that aren’t on fire, resist adding them to today — drop them in your inbox or onto the week instead.

When you’re reminded to plan

Sonto nudges you with a planning reminder when it’s time to plan. You control when it appears in Settings, so the nudge fits your own routine — many people plan their week on a Friday afternoon and their day first thing each morning.

Availability

The guided, step-by-step planning flow is currently a Mac feature. On iPhone you can still view your day and week and schedule tasks, but the guided flow itself isn’t available there yet.

Plan your Year and Quarter

The longer-term plans that weekly and daily planning draw from.

Calendar

Time-blocking tasks during weekly and daily planning.