Free printable daily planner template: your top three and the day by the hour

A daily planner needs the date, the hours of your day and room for tasks, with a box to tick beside each one. This one is laid out in the order you plan. Up to three goals go at the top, marked A, B and C. The day's top three come next, each with the goal it moves. An hourly schedule runs from the hour your day starts to the hour it ends, and a short to-do list and a few lines for notes take the rest. On paper the schedule runs down the left and the lists down the right, so the times and the tasks sit side by side.

It's free, and it saves nothing. There's no account or sign-up. What you type stays on this page in your browser: it isn't sent to us or to anyone else, and no AI reads it. Close or reload the tab and it's gone, so print the planner or save it as a PDF before you leave. If you'd rather write by hand, leave the form empty, pick the hours your day starts and ends, and print the blank planner.

Press Print or save as PDF, then choose where the planner goes in your browser's print dialog. In Chrome and Edge, set the destination to Save as PDF. In Firefox, choose Save to PDF. In Safari on a Mac, open the PDF menu at the bottom of the dialog and choose Save as PDF. On Android, pick Save as PDF from the printer list. On iPhone and iPad, tap the Share button in the print options, then Save to Files. The planner fits one A4 or Letter page, so leave the scale at its default. Your browser may add the date and the page address in the margins; you can turn those off in the same dialog.

It depends on how fixed your day is. A planner with hours suits days built around set times, like shifts, classes or meetings, where a task needs its own hour to happen. A plain list suits days you shape as you go: the to-do list template has the top three and room for seven more, with no hours. The weekly planner template works a level up, saying what the week is for and which day each task goes on. Plan the week once, then fill in each day's planner from it, the evening before or first thing.

Partly. LeapSteps is our app, a to-do list where any task can link to a goal's next step. The Plan tab's Today shows what's due today, each task can have a due date and a due time with a reminder, the Calendar shows your tasks by day, and the Do tab's focus timer keeps one task in front of you while you work. What it doesn't do is lay out an hourly timeline or move blocks around for you, so the schedule itself works better on this sheet. It can't import the planner, so you'd type the tasks in again. LeapSteps is free to start, and Pro comes with a 7-day free trial. The template stays free either way.