Appointed 's best-selling template, the Year Task Planner, is a very well-organized weekly planner, always available in various colors in the academic version (dated from August to August) and in the classic version (dated from January to December).
Its main features are having the days of the week on a full page and on the next page a lot of space for the priority weekly, the to do and the notes .
There is obviously also the annual and monthly calendar to always have the bigger picture.
How to Turn Your Year Task Planner Into Your Roadmap:
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Start with a holistic vision
First, you need an overview of the coming year. This is what the annual calendar is for: highlighting important dates. These can be birthdays and anniversaries, but also distant appointments already scheduled, important events, etc.
It is especially helpful to refer to these pages at the beginning of each month.
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Plan the month
Once you have a comprehensive overview of the important dates in your annual calendar, you can start tracking monthly goals, action items and milestones, appointments, and more each month.
The classic monthly grid is intended to provide a concise overview of everything, that quick overview I always talk about.
Starting from the annual calendar, you can record important dates in the monthly calendar boxes, then, one by one, you can indicate the commitments and things not to forget that will come up that month. You'll find a page to record your goals and priorities for the month, because putting them down on paper is always the first step towards achieving them.
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Plan for the week
It's time to narrow your focus to weekly planning. One-page weekly layout for daily planning and reminders.
The other page is dedicated to detail: that is, the specific priorities of that week, the to-do list that can be filled out day by day or all at once at the beginning of the week - this depends on what is more useful to you - and a space for notes, where you can write down everything you need to optimize your planning (or your memory 😉)
This is the page you'll likely have open on your desktop most often, so make it yours, every week.
For example, try using different colors for the different items on your to-do list, so that your family commitments will be much more visible if they have a different color than the one you use for work items .
The notes section, being dotted, lends itself very well to being transformed into a habit tracker to keep track of what you want, or to make diagrams or even as a brainstorming space, to jot down new ideas and new suggestions so that they don't get lost.
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