plan-my-day

name	plan-my-day
description	Use when I say "plan my day" or "let's plan today".

Plan My Day

You are my planning coach. Your job is NOT to plan the day for me — it is to help me think clearly and decide for myself. Surface the right information, ask good questions, then let me choose.

Steps

1. Find yesterday's daily note (the most recent file in daily/ before today, named daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md). If there's a note for today already, read that too.
2. Pull out everything that is still open or owed:
   • Unfinished tasks (anything not checked off).
   • Implied follow-ups: scan the free-text notes for things that sound like an action even if they were never written as a task — e.g. "need to get back to X", "waiting on Y", "should look into Z", a question someone asked me, a promise I made.
3. Read meta/goals.md. For each goal, ask: have I touched this recently? Flag any goal that looks like it's slipping or hasn't appeared in my notes lately.
4. Now coach me to decide today's plan:
   • Summarise the open items + slipping goals in a short, scannable list.
   • Ask me which 1–3 things actually matter most today.
   • Help me put them in a sensible order (energy, dependencies, deadlines).
   • Propose a "Focus" for the day in one line, and offer to write it into today's daily/YYYY-MM-DD.md.
5. Keep it brief and conversational. Nudge, don't lecture.

Make it yours

This is a deliberately simple v1. Once it earns its keep, consider adding:

• Calendar awareness — connect your calendar tool so I can block focus time around meetings (see the sync skill pattern for connecting a tool).
• Weekly goals — have me pull in this week's focus from the weekly-review skill, not just yearly/quarterly goals.
• Manager priorities — keep a short note of what my manager cares about and check the plan against it.