3 Tips to Help Organize your Daily Planner

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Interested in how you can organize your daily planner so that it really helps you achieve your goals? These are three critical tips that will help you make the most out of planning!

A planner can really keep you on track for completing daily, weekly, and monthly goals. If you are like me, you are trying to figure out how to set up your planner so that you get the most out of it. As someone who has used a weekly planner since middle school, I am giving you my top three tips to make sure your planner helps you get things done.

You are going to learn all about how to use a planner to stay organized and tips for using a planner.

After making note of these tips you will be ready to take on the academic year!

3 Tips to Help Organize Your Daily Planner

1) Big Picture Front and Center

The first step is to keep your “big picture” front and center in your planner. Whether you want to have a “yearly goals” page at the front of your planner or a Post-it note you can move from page to page, I definitely recommend you find a way to keep your big picture, goals for the year front and center. This approach helps you stay on track should you become overwhelmed with tasks or you forget the purpose behind a certain task. Completing this step also helps you stay motivated to complete the smaller tasks that go into a larger goal.

2) Write out Daily and Weekly Goals

Every Sunday I write out my goals for the week, and on weekday evenings I write out the tasks I want to accomplish that day that pertain to the weekly goals. The idea is by the end of the week I would have completed the weekly goals by way of working on them steadily throughout the week. Occasionally there will be urgent tasks not related to the weekly goals that end up being on one of the daily to-do lists, but I try not to make that a habit. Typically if I new task comes up during the week I schedule it for the following week (or even a later week) depending on the priority level of the task.

3) Focus on Sets of Three

I try to make all goals in sets of three. For example, I limit my weekly goals to three, and my daily tasks to three. If I complete all three tasks in a day and want to move on to other tasks for weekly goals I can do that, but the “sets of three” rule keeps me focused and not overwhelmed. If I am not able to complete all three tasks in a day, I move the task to the next day.

This post was all about how to organize your daily planner. I like to use a planner that has the week on one side (where I put daily goals) and a blank page on the other side (where I put weekly goals). My favorite planner is the Moleskine Weekly Planner as the layout is perfect for me to organize my goals the way I described. However, this approach will work with many other planner layouts.

This approach also works if you are in school and are juggling coursework. Each day you can simply note what needs to be done for each class on the appropriate day and have a goal to complete all tasks by the end of the week (or by whenever the assignment is due). This approach also helps you map out larger projects that might be due so that you can work on them steadily throughout the semester.

This post was all about how to organize your daily planner.

Do you have a favorite planner that you use? Comment below!