Vander Labs

Skills / Productivity

Weekly planning

Two or three outcomes in the hours you actually have

Your AI plans your week the way an operations-minded coach would: counts the real free hours, reviews last week in five lines, picks two or three outcomes, blocks deep work before meetings fill it, triages the task list and sets up a Friday review.

By Vander Labs. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Claude Code.

What your AI learns

  • Counts plannable hours after meetings, admin and a buffer
  • Turns outcomes into blocks with a written first step each
  • Triages the task list and builds in a shutdown ritual and a Friday review

How it works

  1. Count the real hours: Working hours minus meetings, daily admin and a 15 percent buffer, shown per day.
  2. Review last week: Done, slipped and why, one thing to keep, one to change, carry-overs that still matter.
  3. Choose outcomes: Two or three results with a definition of done, linked to goals, under 60 percent of plannable time.
  4. Break into blocks: 60 to 120 minute sessions with a specific first step, hard thinking in the best energy hours.
  5. Place on the calendar: Deep work first, meetings batched, one admin block a day, a mid-week buffer, Friday review.
  6. Triage tasks: This week, next week, someday or delete, with delegation candidates named and a cap of ten small items.
  7. Set the rules: Notifications off during blocks, a script for new requests, a five-minute daily shutdown.
  8. Friday review: Outcomes, planned versus used hours, slip reasons and one adjustment for next week.
  9. Make it portable: A week grid, calendar entries with first steps, and a notes-app list.

Limits and safety

  • Refuses to plan more deep-work hours than the week has after meetings and buffer.
  • Not for long-term goal setting or team workload management.

Topics: planning, time-blocking, productivity, calendar, review