Daily Planner Template

A daily planner is the sheet for the day that has too much in it, and most of the free ones are built around someone else's day: a schedule that starts at 5 am, or ends at noon, or a page so full of boxes there is no room to write. This one is drawn around one question, which hours do you keep, and it is for anyone who plans a day by hand and prints the same page in the morning, or a week of them on Sunday night.

The schedule runs down the left. Pick 6 am to 6 pm, 8 am to 8 pm, or the full 24 hours, and the rows share the column, so twelve hours get tall rows with a half-hour rule and twenty-four get shorter ones, on one sheet either way. Down the right are the sections you turn on or off: a top three for the day, a to-do list with ten boxes, a line each for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and a notes box that takes whatever height is left. Leave them all off and the schedule takes the whole page.

Dated or undated is a switch. Undated prints a line to write the date on, so one sheet lasts a year of mornings. Turn Dated on, pick the day, and the header reads it in full, Friday, September 18, 2026, which is the thing you look at first when the page comes off the printer.

One decision worth explaining: the sections are switches instead of separate designs, the same as the weekly planner in this family. A day with meals on it and a day without are the same day, and making you choose between two listings is how template sites pad their catalogs. Here it is one file, and the layout closes up around whatever you leave out, so there is never an empty box with a heading over it.

Print it at 100%, not fit to page, on ordinary copier paper; a daily sheet is written on and recycled by evening. If you print one every day, pick the light-ink theme, which keeps the rules and one accent and drops everything else. The free version is this design in the Studio theme, undated, 6 am to 6 pm, with the top three, the to-do list and the notes box, on Letter, with a small credit line at the foot. The paid version carries your title and your name, the hours you keep, the meals lines and the other section switches, the date, all six themes, and comes back in Letter and A4 from one purchase, with a link that works for a year.