Weekly Planner

Most planning advice tells you to list tasks and assign them to days. That produces plans that collapse by Wednesday — because they don't account for energy (a 2-hour block during low-energy time produces less than a 45-minute block at peak), they don't account for context-switching (scattering meetings across every day kills focus), and they don't account for the inevitable fires that take an unbooked hour out of nowhere. This skill plans the week around energy and reality instead of around the calendar grid.

The 4D sort is the core. Every task is either DO (deep work — focus, creativity, complex thinking, scheduled in 90-120 min blocks during peak energy), DEAL (people work — meetings and calls, batched into 2-3 clusters per week so they don't fragment every day), DASH (quick tasks under 15 min, batched into admin blocks so they don't leak into deep work time), or DEFER (feels urgent but doesn't serve this week's goals — moved to next week's holding list, named explicitly). The categorisation is opinionated — admin doesn't get to sit in your peak morning slot just because it's loud.

Then the architectural rules. The 60% rule — only schedule 60% of available hours, because the other 40% absorbs surprises, overruns, and the tasks you forgot. A fully-scheduled week guarantees failure. Anchor events — the most important task of the week gets placed FIRST in the schedule, and everything else gets built around it. If the #1 priority doesn't have a protected slot, it won't happen. Buffer blocks of 15-30 minutes between meetings and before deep work — not wasted time, but decompression and preparation. Theme days (Maker Monday, Meeting Tuesday, Admin Friday) when the user has enough variety to batch by type.

The skill has explicit ADHD-friendly adaptations (shorter blocks, more variety per day, written first-actions like "open file X and write the intro" rather than "work on project," 50% rule for over-buffered transitions). Team planning maps each person's real hours and finds the shared sync window. And Friday's audit — completion rate, priority accuracy, energy alignment — calibrates future weeks. Below 60% means you're over-planning; above 90% means under-planning. After four weeks the patterns emerge.