A weekly plan becomes useful when it helps you decide what to do with the time you actually have.
The Part-Time Business Workweek Kit is built around that decision. Its working pages guide you through capacity, priority, and handoff, with additional tools for documenting a repeatable task and thinking through delegation.
Here’s how to use it for one week. The example below is illustrative. Replace its time allowance and project with your own.
Begin with capacity
Imagine you have a half-hour window on Tuesday and an hour on Saturday. You want to begin making a checklist from a process you understand.
Record the commitments around those windows, including what could interrupt them. Decide which session is more dependable and whether your energy at that time suits the proposed work.
If Tuesday is uncertain, avoid making the entire plan depend on completing something then. You might use it for gathering notes, while keeping Saturday’s task small enough to begin with the material you already have.
Capacity gives the rest of the plan its limits. Start there rather than listing every task you would like to complete.
Choose the week’s priority
A finishable result for this example might be a rough checklist with enough instruction for your own review. You are deciding whether the steps form a complete explanation before asking someone else to use it.
Write what that version needs and what can wait. The steps, their order, and any essential warnings belong in the draft. A cover design can come later.
Give each session a defined task. In Tuesday’s window, collect the steps and source notes. On Saturday, write the instructions and read through the task as a beginner would encounter it.
If the work turns out to be larger, revise the scope. The Kit records decisions. You still make them.
Leave a handoff when you stop
At the end of Tuesday’s session, note where the draft is, which decisions you made, and the first thing to do when you return.
For example: “The steps are listed in Checklist v1. On Saturday, add the instruction before Step 1, then check whether the order makes sense. Leave formatting until the instructions are complete.”
After Saturday’s session, update the note for the next stage. You may be ready to invite a tester, or you may need to answer a question about the process first.
The handoff helps preserve context between sessions. It is especially useful when those sessions are separated by a full working week.
Use the other tools when the work calls for them
The SOP tool helps you document a repeatable procedure. Use it when you have a task worth making easier to repeat. Write the steps from the work you actually perform, and check them against a real attempt.
The delegation tool helps you consider what another person could take on and what they would need to do it well. A task needs clear instructions and an appropriate person before passing it along becomes useful.
You don’t need to complete every tool every week. Use the pages that serve the work in front of you.
Keep the plan you made
The pages let you enter answers and keep working notes in the browser on that device. Use the save control to download a backup file. You can reopen that saved file later, including when moving your work to another device.
Browser storage is not cloud sync. Keep your saved file somewhere you can find it, and avoid leaving private answers on a shared device. The print control lets you print the Kit, including your answers, or use your browser’s Save as PDF option.
Begin your own week
The Workweek Kit is $27, paid once. The $9 AI Planning Companion is optional at checkout, and the Kit works without an AI subscription. Both purchases have a 14-day refund on request.
If you already own the Kit, sign in and open the starting page. Begin with the week’s capacity, then choose one result you can leave in better shape by the end of it.
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