Fourteen real weeks

Who PlanJour is for

A default calendar offers everyone the same seven categories. Not one of the fourteen people below would use that set unchanged, which is the whole point.

Why the categories are the argument

PlanJour starts you with Work, Health, Social, Personal, Travel, Business and Bills. They are a reasonable guess and they are wrong for almost everybody. A student has nowhere to put a lecture. A shift worker has nowhere to put daytime sleep. A carer has nowhere to put caring, which is thirty hours of their week.

So you change them, and that is not a settings-screen nicety. The categories decide what the chart can tell you. Lump four different activities into one block called Work and the week looks full and says nothing. Separate them and the first honest question appears immediately.

Each page below is one worked week: the calendar as it ran, the hours it added up to, and the thing that became obvious once it was drawn. The numbers in each are summed from the week shown, not written alongside it, so the two pictures cannot disagree.

Fourteen weeks

None of these is exactly you

They are not meant to be. They exist because “you can make your own categories” is an abstract sentence, and “here is a carer’s week with thirty hours of caring in it” is not. Pick the one closest to your life, take the categories that apply, and throw away the rest.

There is no template to install and nothing to import. Every one of these weeks was built from the same feature every account has on the free plan: categories you name yourself.

Your week, as it actually ran.