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Life Planner
Put the things you mean to do in one plan: reading, learning, exercise, chores and meals. Tell it how much time you have each day, and it spreads everything out, shows you today’s list, and adds up what a whole year of sticking with it gets you.
How it works
- Pick your tracks. Start from the starter plan, or add from the library: Bible in a Year, Great Books, a ladder course, walking, chores, meals, or anything of your own.
- Set your time. Say how many minutes you have each day of the week and mark days off. Tasks that can move (“bathroom once a week”) go to the days with room.
- Follow it. Tick things off on the Today list. Print a week, a month or a whole year, or add it to your calendar.
Time estimates are rough. Change any of them to fit how fast you read, clean or cook. Your plan stays in this browser (for each learner, if you use learner profiles), and nothing is sent anywhere.
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About the estimates and sources
- Bible in a Year follows the Bible in a Year plan and shares its ticks: tick a day here or there and it shows in both. Each day is estimated from its number of verses (about 15 to 20 minutes).
- Great Books follows the Great Books in a Year plan, rung by rung, for as many minutes a day as you choose. A rung’s time is its “For teens and adults” lesson at about 200 words a minute, plus about half a minute a practice question.
- Harvard Classics uses the minutes the 1930 Reading Guide gives each day’s reading on Harvard Classics, Fifteen Minutes a Day.
- Translate in a Year shares a Latin or Greek work out by lines (poetry) or words (prose), always ending a session at the end of a sentence, and links each session to that passage in the reader. Time is a rough guess for someone who has finished a first-year grammar: about 2 minutes a line of Virgil or Homer and about 3 words a minute of prose (5 for John).
- Ladder courses use the lesson planner’s minutes for each topic, which includes practice. Topics you pass on a ladder are ticked here too.
- Meals read the recipes you planned in the Meal Planner and use each recipe’s prep and cook time. Holidays come from the Meal Prep collections.
- Exercise plans follow the U.S. Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans (2nd edition, 2018): for adults, 150 to 300 minutes a week of moderate activity such as brisk walking, or 75 to 150 minutes of vigorous activity, or a mix, plus muscle-strengthening activity on 2 or more days a week. The guidelines advise people with a chronic health condition or symptoms to be under the care of a health care provider, and anyone who hasn’t been active to start slowly and build up over time. The planner schedules time; it doesn’t give workout instructions.
- Chores list a default with the range the guidance gives, and the source for each where there is one. Where no source is listed, the frequency is our own rough default. Your appliance manuals and your own home come first.