A Weekly Planner You Own: Plan the Week on One Board

Every Sunday the same ritual: open a planner app, stare at a blank week, and try to decide what actually matters before Monday swallows it. The planning is worth it — a week you've thought about beats a week you react to. The apps around it are the problem. They rent you your own plan, sync it to a cloud you don't control, and impose one rigid idea of what a "week" should look like.

Baton Board takes the other path. It's a local-first widget board you fully own, and it turns the week ahead into a single screen you shape yourself. It isn't a planner app you subscribe to — it's a board where planning the week is just how you arrange the parts.

The week ahead, as widgets

A weekly plan is a few decisions made visible. Each becomes a widget — and the ones a plan needs most are free:

• Weekly priorities → a Tasks widget. The three-to-five things that would make this a good week. Give each a priority so Monday-morning-you can't quietly drop them for busywork.
• This week's tasks → a Tasks widget with filters. Give items a due date, then use the board's built-in filters — priority, overdue, today, this week — so the plan is what's actionable now, not your entire backlog.
• The week at a glance → a Calendar widget. A dated view of what falls where, so a heavy Tuesday and an open Friday are obvious before they arrive.
• Deadlines → a Countdown widget. The Thursday deliverable and the Friday invoice get a visible countdown, so nothing sneaks up mid-week.
• Context → Notes and Links widgets. Meeting prep and reference material kept beside the plan instead of scattered across tabs.

Arrange them once, and "planning the week" becomes a five-minute pass over a board that's already yours. When you want the whole week pulled into one dated list automatically, the Agenda widget (Pro) aggregates due and upcoming items across every widget on the board.

Plan, then protect the plan

A plan that lives in an app you forget to open is no plan at all. On a board that's just there — a browser tab, a pinned window — the week stays in view all week:

• Monday: set the week. Write the three-to-five priorities, drop this week's tasks in with due dates, and glance at the calendar to see where the load falls.
• Midweek: adjust, don't restart. Reprioritize as things shift. The board is yours to rearrange — no ceremony, no "project settings."
• Friday: close the loop. See what landed, roll the rest forward. Then run a proper look-back with a weekly review when you're ready.

Why local-first matters for a plan

The plan for your week is a map of your commitments — personal data by any definition. A planner you own treats it that way:

• No account, no cloud. Your plan lives in this browser, on this device. There's nothing to sign up for and nothing to leak.
• No lock-in. Export the whole board to a data.json file whenever you want, and import it anywhere. Your plan is a file you keep, not a database someone else holds.
• Yours to shape. Time-blockers, priority-listers, calendar people — everyone plans differently. Because you arrange the widgets, the board matches your method, not an app author's template.
• Humans and AI, one board. Ask the built-in AI assistant (Pro) to draft next week's priorities from your open tasks, or let an agent add items straight to the same board you plan on — nothing sent to a server you don't control unless you opt in.

Build a weekly planner in five minutes

1. Add a Tasks widget named "This Week" and give each item a priority and a due date.
2. Add a Calendar widget to see the next seven days at a glance.
3. Add a Countdown for the week's hard deadline so it stays visible.
4. Add a Notes widget for the week's priorities in plain words.
5. Pin the tab and make Monday planning a five-minute pass over a board you own.

Frequently asked questions

Is Baton Board a dedicated weekly planner app?

No — it's a general local-first dashboard. But its widgets (tasks with priorities and due dates, filters, calendar, countdowns, notes) let you build a complete weekly planning system and shape it to how you actually plan.

How is this different from a weekly review?

Planning looks forward (what will make next week good); a review looks back (what happened last week). Baton Board handles both — this article is about planning the week ahead; a separate weekly review routine covers the look-back on the same board.

Can I time-block my days?

Yes. Use a Calendar widget for a dated view and separate Tasks widgets or priorities to model morning/afternoon or per-project blocks the way your week actually runs. For a single list that pulls due items from every widget automatically, the Agenda widget (Pro) does it in one place.

Where is my weekly plan stored?

In your browser's local storage on this device. There's no account and no server copy. Export to a data.json file any time to back up or move your plan.

Is it free?

Yes — the free plan covers one board with the seven free widgets, including the Tasks, Calendar, Countdown, Notes, and Links widgets a weekly plan is built on. The Agenda widget (which aggregates due items across the whole board) and the AI assistant are part of Pro (¥980/month).

Pricing

Free covers one customizable board with the seven free widgets, export/import, automatic backups, board-wide search, and eight languages. Pro (¥980/month or ¥9,800/year) unlocks unlimited boards, the analytics widgets (KPI, KPI tree, goal, habit, agenda, activity, PDCA), the AI assistant, end-to-end sync, and deep customization. A ¥14,800 lifetime license is available. Polar handles payments and worldwide taxes.

Try it

Open Baton Board, add a "This Week" task list, and drop in the three things that would make the week a good one. In five minutes you'll have a weekly planner on a board you own outright — with no account, no subscription to your own plan, and nothing to lose.

Related reading: "A Weekly Review Routine on One Dashboard (Template Included)," "How to Build Your First Baton Board (A 10-Minute Guide)," and "The Complete Baton Board Widget Guide — All 14 Widgets, and What's Free vs Pro."