Week Planning Tool

[haptalaon]

Request for Concrit!

I have long desired to make a tool for organising my pagan life, week by week. I find setting a time to very actively plan is essential. I've tried it on paper but I worry about wasting it and often forget. My coding skills have improved a great deal, and I'm now on the cusp of creating the tool.

What kinds of things do you pre-plan and track? if you used the tool, what questions and records would you want to make? Do you use templates made by anybody else, or by yourself, at the moment - what are they, and why do you like them?

On the technical side, the tool will:

• Not require login, and not transfer any data away from your computer. Data will be saved to your own browser (to localStorage)
• Type in updates whenever you think of them
• Download as a text file at the end of the period
• Then, clear all data and start again

Here is a current draft. It does not work yet so don't type anything in, you will not be able to save it. I've put in sample data to show how you might use it.

Is it too much? But I think I'd rather have the prompts there to have ideas than not. I more often suffer from lack of memory than from overwhelm.

Does it mix up 'things I plan to do' with 'records of things I have done' too much? But I think if I wasn't planning and recording in the same place, I would forget to check the planning page.

Would you like the ability to hide sections? For example, there is a box for recording Divinations and oracles - but if you never do these, would you want the tool to remember to never show you it, to keep the interface more tidy?

Please throw anything you think of and as much of it as possible in the comments.

Comments

Off the top of my head...

[nyyki]

I can find value in the ability to share calendar information with others in a group/coven. A child process for a particular entry where things like materials needed or pre-work would be nice. The ability to import full/quarter/new moon data would be useful too. The calendar import function could also be useful for importing the holiday calendars. The ability to go with different month/day designations would be nice for those of us who follow a path with an active calendar using different months and day names. Being able to do things like notate something needed and set a specific window to get it done would be a useful feature (something like "Strawberry country wine -14" would set an alert to buy the wine two weeks prior, and the alert could be snoozed or marked finished). Some provision for using a lunar calendar instead of a solar one would also be great.

This sounds like it could encompass a calendar manager with a cost tracker, project management program, and some sort of email or text alert system. Double encryption could protect anonymity.

I like the idea.

[annofowlshire]

I think this is beyond your scope, but I'd like something that reminds me that a high day is coming up, like a week in advance so I can actually prepare for it instead of suddenly remembering it's the Autumn Equinox and I should do a ritual or something but then it's way too much work so I don't and then I feel like a Bad Pagan. *facepalm* But I suppose if I can remember that's coming up myself I could add it and not forget about it the next day... I scrolled down further and saw that you have this!

I like planning on paper, but no matter the 'system' I struggle with it for anything that's a more than a to-do list for that actual day. I've really struggled with any kind of "pagan" planning system, it just rides on my already flawed to-do list.

I like how yours keeps track over time, but still lets you update it as you go along. Paper weekly planners just don't give me enough space for that. And that you can save it! That's another issue I run into--love paper, but my life archive lives on DW. Having something I could just c&p at the end into a private entry would be amazing.

[annofowlshire]

I'm looking at this again this morning, and some more thoughts:
Could Focus be at the top since it might flavor what your Walking/Reading/Disconnection is about?

Also events/dates?

Yes to the ability to hide sections that aren't relevant that week.

[anonne]

Looks really nice! I think I'd expect the questions focused on the past to come before those focused on the future within each section, to encourage reflection on what's been done to lead into reflection on what will/should be done. You may not agree, but that's my immediate thought.