Free tool
Weekly Planner Template
See your whole week at a glance. Fill in the grid below by day and time of day, add a colour for each person, then print it or save a PDF. Prefer paper? Leave it blank and print a clean template to write on.
People (assign tasks and colour-code them)
Quick add
Add tasks above and they drop into the grid below, colour-coded by person. Leave it empty to print a clean blank template instead.
Our Weekly Plan
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Why a weekly planner actually works
A weekly view hits the sweet spot between a daily to-do list, which loses sight of the bigger picture, and a monthly calendar, which is too coarse to plan around. Seeing all seven days at once lets you spot the evening with three clashing commitments before it arrives, and the quiet afternoon you could use to get ahead.
Breaking each day into morning, afternoon and evening is deliberately simple. Hour-by-hour planners look thorough but most households never fill them in, because life does not run to the minute. Three blocks a day is enough structure to plan around school runs, work, meals and activities without feeling like a timetable you are bound to break.
Colour-coding by person turns a planner into a shared family tool. When everyone can see at a glance who is doing the pickup, who has football, and whose turn it is to cook, the mental load of remembering it all stops sitting with one person. That is the whole point of planning together rather than one person holding the week in their head.
How to plan a week that holds together
Block the fixed things first. Work hours, school, clubs and standing commitments go in before anything else, so you are planning around reality rather than wishful thinking.
Add meals to the plan. Writing dinner into each evening removes the daily 'what are we having' scramble and makes your grocery list almost write itself.
Protect one block a week. Leave at least one afternoon or evening deliberately empty. A week with no slack falls apart the moment something runs late.
Do a Sunday reset. Spend ten minutes filling in the coming week and clearing the last one. For a planner the whole household sees and updates live, OneHaus keeps the shared calendar in sync across everyone's phones.
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Weekly planner FAQ
Common questions about building and printing your weekly plan.
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