A free AI daily planner skill for Claude that plans your day around one priority
Daily planning that starts from your calendar, tasks, email and goals, then finds the hours for the one thing that has to happen by tonight. Free to download, with simple onboarding if you don't have written goals yet.
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Daily plan/daily-planner
Using the daily-planner skill
Notion Yesterday's one thing: slipped
Google Calendar 9am to 12pm free, calls from 2pm
Todoist 2 overdue, 6 due today
Gmail 2 replies owed, oldest 4 days
Granola You told Sam: proposal by todayYesterday's one thing slipped: the proposal. You told Sam you'd send it today, and you have 9am to 12pm free.
What's the one thing that has to be true by tonight?
Proposal sent to Sam
What's the smallest version that still counts?
Two pages with the price
Proposal sent to Sam: two pages, with the price
Best window: 9am to 12pm, before your calls.
Protect against: polishing the slide template, which has moved three days running.
Owed: 2 replies, oldest first. I'll ask tonight if it came true.
Every daily plan starts with yesterday's verdict and ends with one thing to do today
Each morning the skill reads three things, runs four steps and hands you three. Tomorrow it opens by asking whether today's one thing came true.
What it reads
- Yesterday's one thingWhat you said had to be true, and whether it did.
- Your goalsThis week's priorities if you have them. If it can't find any, it helps you set them.
- Anything you connectOptional: your calendar, tasks, email and meeting notes.
What it does every morning
- Give a verdict on yesterdayOne line: did it come true? Only a repeat slip earns more.
- Ask for the one thingWhat has to be true by tonight? Then one or two follow-ups.
- Name the distractionIt works out what's likely to pull you off course, asks you, and compares.
- Fit it into the dayIt finds the hours the one thing can actually live in.
What you get
- A one-screen daily planSaved where you keep your work: a folder, a Notion page, a Google Doc.
- A window to do it inIf the day has no room, you find out at 8am rather than 5pm.
- A 30-second evening checkDid it come true? The answer is what tomorrow opens with.
Any role can plan a day this way: only the one thing changes
- Founder
- Proposal sent
- Salesperson
- Five new calls made
- Marketer
- Campaign brief approved
- Engineer
- Fix live for users
- Manager
- Hard conversation had
- Recruiter
- Shortlist with the client
- Consultant
- Findings presented
- Writer
- Chapter draft finished
Days off count too. It names one thing that isn't work, and leaves your task list alone.
The daily planning questions it asks each morning
- What's the one thing that has to be true by tonight?
- What's the smallest version of that which still counts as done?
- Does this actually move your goal, or is it the comfortable thing?
- What's today's most likely distraction?
- What are you protecting today?
The first is the only one it always asks. It picks one or two of the others to suit the day, because five questions every morning is a checklist you would soon stop answering. It works out your likely distraction too, and if the two of you disagree, it says so.
The daily planning template it fills in for you
One screen, written after a short conversation. Any heading with nothing in it gets dropped, so a simple day stays short.
It lists the sources it actually checked that morning, so you can see what the plan is based on. In the evening it adds whether the one thing came true.
Example plan: a founder
The daily planner skill installs in Claude, Claude Code, Codex or ChatGPT in two minutes
- Claude
In claude.ai or the desktop app, go to Customize, then Skills, click +, choose Upload a skill and upload daily-planner.zip as it is. It then appears in Claude Code too, on the same account.
Claude CodeUnzip it into ~/.claude/skills/, so the file ends up at ~/.claude/skills/daily-planner/SKILL.md.
CodexUnzip it into ~/.agents/skills/, then start a new session.
ChatGPT for WorkGo to Skills, then Create, then Upload from your computer, and upload the zip. Business, Enterprise, Healthcare and Edu only, and your admin has to allow uploads.
Then type /daily-planner first thing in the morning, or just say “plan my day”.
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Questions people ask before installing the daily planner skill
How is this different from a paper planner or planner app?
A planner gives you somewhere to list everything. This asks what has to be true by tonight, checks it against your calendar and goals, and holds you to it tomorrow morning. It doesn't plan every hour: it finds the one thing and the window it fits in.
What if I don't have clear goals yet?
It looks first, wherever it can reach. If it can't find any, it runs a short onboarding: where to keep your plans, what you're trying to make happen over the next few months, and what tends to pull you off course. If you still can't name a goal, it drafts one, marks it as a draft and plans today anyway.
Is this a daily standup?
A team standup tells other people what you are doing. This is a personal check-in: nobody else is in the room, and the point is deciding what matters today rather than reporting on it. If you need to tell your team afterwards, the plan gives you the line to say.
What happens if I miss a few days?
It says one line, such as "four days since the last one, straight in", and carries on. It doesn't list what you missed or ask you to explain, because a plan that greets you with a reckoning teaches you not to come back. On days off, it keeps things short and leaves your work list alone.
Does it include an end-of-day review?
Yes. Say "close out my day" and it asks one question: did it come true? It records your answer in about 30 seconds, and points it out if the day went to the exact distraction you named that morning. Tomorrow opens with that result.
Do I need to connect my tools?
No. It works from your answers alone. Connect your calendar, task list, email or meeting notes and it uses them for free hours, overdue tasks, replies you owe and promises from calls. It reads email but never sends anything, and it tells you which sources it actually checked.
How do I run it every morning?
Type /daily-planner first thing, or just say "plan my day". It needs your answers, so a scheduled run works better as a prompt to sit down with it than as a replacement.
How does it fit with weekly and monthly reviews?
Keep them in the same place. The daily plan picks up your priorities and monthly goal if it finds them, and your weekly review can see how many one-things landed. It works fine on its own too.
Zoom out with the weekly retro skill and the monthly review skill: plan the day, review the week, then step back once a month.