Weekly Planner Template
Print a weekly planner at true size: an hour-by-hour grid with a column per day, or a ruled box for each day. Pick Monday or Sunday as the first day, leave the dates blank or fill them in for up to eight weeks, and add a priorities box if you want one. Free, no sign-up.
Fill it in to print dates on every day; leave it empty for a blank planner you date by hand.
Prints at true size on the paper chosen above, with a 0.5 in margin kept clear. In the print dialog choose the same paper, set Scale to 100% (Actual size), and turn off Fit to page and Headers and footers.
Weekly planner preview
How to Use the Weekly Planner Template
- 1. Choose a layout. The time grid has a column per day and a row per hour, so it suits a timetable of classes, shifts and study blocks. Day boxes give each day a ruled box for a to-do list, plus a notes box.
- 2. Set the week. Start on Monday or Sunday, and keep all seven days or only Monday to Friday. Enter any date in the first week to have the dates printed above each day; leave it empty to write them in by hand.
- 3. Add pages. Choose one, two, four or eight weeks. With a date entered, each page moves on by a week; without one you get identical blank pages.
- 4. Print at 100%. Pick Letter or A4 and landscape or portrait, then print at actual size with headers and footers off. The sheet keeps a 0.5 inch margin on Letter and 12 mm on A4.
Time Grid or Day Boxes?
| Layout | Best for | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|
| Time grid | Classes, shifts, appointments and study blocks you want to place at a specific hour | Less room per task; a long to-do list does not fit in a one-hour row |
| Day boxes | Task lists, assignments due, reading targets and anything not tied to a clock time | Nothing stops you from overloading one day, so keep a rough hour count in mind |
You can use both: print the grid for fixed commitments and keep a day-box page beside it for the flexible work. The grid runs from the hour you choose to the hour you choose, with optional half-hour guide lines for twenty-five and fifty minute blocks.
Planning a Week That Survives Contact
- Fixed things first. Write in classes, work, meals and travel before anything optional. What is left is the time you actually have.
- Then the important work. Place the two or three tasks that matter most into the best hours you have for them, not into whatever is left over. If you are unsure which tasks those are, sort them with the Eisenhower Matrix first.
- Add slack. People tend to underestimate how long their own tasks take. In a classic study, Roger Buehler, Dale Griffin and Michael Ross (1994, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology) found that students took considerably longer to finish a thesis than they had predicted. Leaving a buffer hour in each day is cheap protection against that planning fallacy.
- Plan the review. Spend ten minutes at the end of the week moving unfinished items forward and deciding what to drop.
Week Starts and Dates
ISO 8601, the international standard for dates, treats Monday as the first day of the week, and so do most countries in Europe. In the United States, Canada and a few other places the week conventionally starts on Sunday. The planner lets you choose, and when you enter a date it prints the week that contains that date: with a Monday start, any day from Monday to Sunday gives that Monday-to-Sunday week.
This planner covers one week per page. For a month or a whole year on a page, use the Printable Calendar Generator; for a plan that spreads assignments or revision over many weeks, use the Study Schedule Generator.
Frequently Asked Questions
- How do I print the planner at the right size?
- Choose the same paper size in the print dialog as you chose here, set Scale to 100% or Actual size, and turn off Fit to page and Headers and footers. The planner is drawn in real millimetres, so at 100% it fills the page inside a 0.5 inch margin on Letter or a 12 mm margin on A4.
- Can I print a blank weekly planner with no dates?
- Yes, and that is the default. Leave the date field empty and the page shows a Week of line for you to fill in. Choose up to eight pages to print a stack of identical blank weeks.
- How do I make a planner with dates for several weeks?
- Enter any date in the first week and choose the number of weeks. Each page then shows its own week, with the full date range at the top and the date above every day. Pick Monday or Sunday first so each week starts where you expect.
- Can I leave out the weekend?
- Yes. Choose Monday to Friday and the planner draws five wider columns or boxes instead of seven. This works whichever day you start the week on, since the weekend is simply left out.
- What time range should the grid cover?
- Cover the hours you actually plan around, not every waking hour. A school or office week often fits in 8 AM to 6 PM, while a student who studies in the evening may want the grid to run to 10 PM. A shorter range gives each hour taller rows to write in.
- Is anything I type stored or sent anywhere?
- The planner has no free-text fields beyond its title, and nothing is uploaded; the page is drawn in your browser. Download the SVG or PNG if you want a copy of the blank sheet.