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Undated daily planner · Order of the Day

Give every part of your day its time.One page. One day. About five minutes.

Order of the Day is a paper timeboxing planner inspired by Benjamin Franklin’s daily schedule. Empty your head, pick three priorities and give each one its place on the clock.

Coming soon on AmazonFree 3-page sample
  • 6 × 9 in paperback
  • 120 pages
  • Undated
  • 6 AM – 10 PM, half-hour boxes
Order of the Day planner, front cover with an hour grid in sage, white and terracotta Coming soon

“What good shall I do this day?”

— Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography
No. 1

How it works

Three steps, every morning.

Every daily page follows the same order, so planning becomes a small ritual instead of a chore.

  1. Brain Dump box with a handwritten list of errands, some crossed out

    1. Brain Dump

    Empty your head onto a dotted box: tasks, errands, ideas. Nothing has to be organized yet.

  2. Top 3 Priorities box filled in by hand

    2. Top 3 Priorities

    Choose the three things that would make today a good day. Just three.

  3. Hourly schedule with :00 and :30 columns filled in by hand

    3. Half-hour time boxes

    Give each priority its place on an hour-by-hour grid from 6 AM to 10 PM, with :00 and :30 columns.

And at night, close the day with Franklin’s evening question at the foot of every page: “What good have I done today?”

Open planner: a blank daily page next to a filled-in one with priorities, a brain dump and time boxes
Example page · handwriting for illustration
No. 2

The Franklin story

A planner that is almost three hundred years old.

In his Autobiography, Benjamin Franklin describes a plan to practise thirteen virtues. The third was Order, and he admitted it was the one he found hardest to keep.

To work on it, he gave every hour of his day a job and wrote the scheme on one page of a little book. Each morning he asked what good he would do that day; each evening he examined what he had done.

Virtue III · Order“Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.”

Order of the Day turns that page into a practical daily sheet for modern days: fewer rules, the same idea.

Franklin’s scheme for “the twenty-four hours of a natural day”
5–7The morning question: What good shall I do this day?Rise, wash, and address Powerful Goodness! Contrive day’s business, and take the resolution of the day; prosecute the present study, and breakfast.
8–11Work.
12–1Read, or overlook my accounts, and dine.
2–5Work.
6–9The evening question: What good have I done to-day?Put things in their places. Supper. Music or diversion, or conversation. Examination of the day.
10–4Sleep.

Source: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (public domain), Project Gutenberg eBook #20203. Original spelling kept.

No. 3

What’s inside

A full daily page filled in by hand

Everything you need. Nothing you don’t.

  • 115 undated daily pages. Circle the weekday, write the date and start any day of the year. Skip a weekend and nothing goes to waste.
  • Top 3, Brain Dump and time boxes on every page, plus Franklin’s evening question.
  • 6 AM to 10 PM in half hours, 12-hour format in the English edition.
  • A how-to page with tips for planning your day in blocks.
  • Franklin’s own 24-hour scheme, reproduced from his Autobiography.
  • 6 × 9 in paperback, 120 white pages, with dark, easy-to-write lines. Easy to carry in a bag or keep on a desk.

A Spanish edition with a 24-hour grid is coming to Amazon.es.

Free printable

Try it before you buy it.

Get a free 3-page printable sample of Order of the Day by email. Print it at home and plan tomorrow on paper. We’ll also let you know when the planner arrives on Amazon.

No. 4

Questions

Frequently asked questions

When and where can I buy it?

Order of the Day is coming soon on Amazon (Amazon.com for the English edition and Amazon.es for the Spanish one). Leave your email above and we’ll tell you the day it’s available.

Is it dated?

No. Every page is undated: circle the weekday and write the date yourself. You can start in any month and skip days without wasting pages.

How long does it last?

There are 115 daily pages, one per day. Used every single day that’s almost four months; most people skip some days, so it lasts longer.

What hours does the schedule cover?

From 6 AM to 10 PM, hour by hour, with a :00 and a :30 column so you can plan in 30-minute blocks. The Spanish edition uses a 24-hour clock (6:00–22:00).

What is timeboxing?

Instead of keeping an endless to-do list, you give each task a fixed slot on your calendar. It turns “I should do this” into “I’ll do this at 10:00”.

What size is it?

6 × 9 inches (15.24 × 22.86 cm), paperback, 120 white pages.

Is it connected to Franklin Planner or FranklinCovey?

No. It is inspired by the daily schedule Benjamin Franklin describes in his public-domain Autobiography. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by any Franklin estate, organization or brand.

Who is Kept Hours?

A small independent imprint that makes simple paper planners. Kept Hours is an imprint of Landa Global, S.L., based in Spain.