Weekly Planner

What this skill does

• Detects the planning horizon automatically (deadlines, sprint cadence, milestones) or asks briefly
• Factors the recurring baseline load (email/admin/meetings) into the capacity check
• Sorts goals & tasks into realistic time blocks (time-blocking) incl. ~20% buffer and breaks
• Caps deep work realistically at ~3–4 h/day; proposes missing duration estimates (as assumptions)
• Calibrates estimate vs. actual in the review (a personal correction factor for accurate plans)
• Standard-week template: define fixed blocks once, reuse every week
• Contingency order: what gives way first when something comes up — protects the MITs
• Multi-week via rolling-wave; backward planning from deadlines incl. dependencies/wait times
• Prioritizes by Eisenhower + MITs; plans recurring rhythms (daily/sprint/standing) & absences
• Plans your personal life too on request (sport, family, recovery), not just work
• Daily plan (1-3-5), goal→plan, guilt-free re-planning
• Export as a table, multi-week overview, shared team view or calendar-ready .ics

Description

Weekly Planner is a skill for realistic weekly planning and time management — it turns your messy to-do list into a time-blocked weekly schedule with priorities, deep work, and about 20% buffer for the unexpected. A calm, realistic planning coach in one skill, split by a mode router: weekly plan (anchor), daily plan (1-3-5 rule), goal→plan (break a goal into weekly steps), weekly review (recap, carry-forward, calibration), re-planning (when the week derails) and standard week (a reusable template). The planning horizon is detected automatically — from deadlines, sprint/Scrum cadence, recurring meetings or milestones — or briefly asked for; multi-week plans use rolling-wave (next week detailed, later weeks coarse). Built on proven methods: time-blocking/timeboxing, the Eisenhower matrix, Most Important Tasks, backward planning from deadlines, task batching/themed days and deep work. The core is honesty and realism: the recurring baseline load (email, admin, standing meetings) is subtracted from the budget, tasks are estimated generously (against the planning fallacy; missing estimates are proposed as assumptions), deep work is capped at a realistic ~3–4 h/day, buffer and breaks are scheduled, dependencies and absences are accounted for. Through the weekly review the skill calibrates estimate vs. actual and gets more accurate over time. A predefined contingency order makes re-planning fast and protects the MITs. A standard-week template with fixed blocks can be defined once and reused every week. On overload the skill says clearly what to move, drop or delegate. On request it also plans your personal life (sport, family, recovery), not just work. Output as a time-block table, multi-week overview, day view, shared team view or a calendar-ready .ics export. Sustainable pace over hustle: recovery and end-of-day are part of the plan.

Examples

What it does not do

• Won't build an overloaded plan without buffer/breaks and won't sugar-coat the numbers
• Won't create guilt; doesn't moralize about what's left undone
• Won't promise productivity/success miracles
• Doesn't replace a to-do app, ongoing habit tracking or a calendar (but provides import/export)
• Is no substitute for medical/psychological help; flags chronic overload and points to breaks

Compatibility & tech

Tested (internal)

3 scenarios

Recommended runtime

Any current model; benefits from details on hours, baseline load, appointments and energy profile.

Modes

Weekly plan · Daily plan · Goal → plan · Weekly review · Re-planning · Standard week (template)

Inputs

Task/goal list · Working hours, baseline load & fixed/recurring appointments · Energy profile/chronotype · Deadlines & dependencies · Existing plan/template (carry-forward)

Output format

Time-block weekly plan (table) with MITs, buffer, breaks, carry-forward, contingency order and an overload note; for several weeks a multi-week overview (rolling-wave); alternatively a daily plan, shared team view or .ics

Subcategory

Planning & time management

License

Proprietär

Security profile

What you get

• weekly-planner-1.5.0/3 files
  • .claude-plugin/marketplace.json
  • plugins/weekly-planner/skills/weekly-planner/3 files

    • SKILL.md
    • manifest.json
    • references/1 file

      • weekly-planner-checklist.md
  • .agents/skills/weekly-planner/→ universal — same content (Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini, Windsurf, Cline)
  • LICENSE.txt

Installation

Also works as a chat prompt

Note

Works best with your working hours, baseline load, fixed/recurring appointments, chronotype and rough duration estimates; the skill infers the planning horizon and missing estimates where possible and flags them.

Changelog

• v1.5.022.06.2026Platform-native output: now actively uses your platform's native formatting — tables, checklists, code blocks and clickable/button options, with a numbered fallback on non-interactive platforms. Plus internal metadata that prepares the upcoming agent builder.
• v1.4.018.06.2026Reworked to the AUTHORING v2 standard: realistic input/answer examples (incl. a calibration case), copy checklist(s) and internal evals; cross-references added.
• v1.3.010.06.2026Estimate-vs-actual calibration in the review; standard-week template (mode F); contingency order to protect the MITs; team/shared planning + calendar-ready export.
• v1.2.010.06.2026Baseline load in the capacity check; deep-work daily limit (~3–4 h); proposed default duration estimates; scope clarification work vs. personal life. Derived from a test run.
• v1.1.010.06.2026Planning horizon + multi-week rolling-wave; backward planning, dependencies, absences; recurring rhythms incl. sprint/Scrum; reactive-time blocks.
• v1.0.010.06.2026Weekly planner with 5 modes, time-blocking + Eisenhower/MITs, honest capacity check, buffer/breaks, energy matching, carry-forward and .ics export.

Frequently asked questions