Free project template
Personal blogging schedule with every task dated from the day you start
Keep a personal blog going: an ideas list, a draft each week, a publishing day and a quarterly look back.
- 5 sections
- 21 tasks
- Opens as a list
- Dated from day 1
Blog
Days count from the day you start. In the app, pick a start or a finish date and each task lands on a real day.
Set up
- Decide what the blog is about in one sentenceDay 1
- Pick a platform and a domainDay 4
- Write an about pageDay 6
- Set a schedule: weekly or fortnightlyDay 6High
Ideas
- List ten post ideasDay 3
- Choose next week's post from the listEvery Sunday 20:00
Writing
- Write the draftEvery Tuesday 20:00
- Edit the draft the next dayEvery Wednesday 20:00
- Cut the first paragraph if it is only warming up
- Read it aloud
- Fix the title
Publishing
- Publish the postEvery Thursday 9:00
- Add images and alt text
- Check links and preview on a phone
- Publish
- Share it in one or two places
- Reply to commentsEvery Saturday
Look back
- Quarterly look backEvery 3 months
- Which posts people read and shared
- Which you enjoyed writing
- Adjust the schedule if it is too much
About this template
Most personal blogs stop after a few posts. There was no set day to write and no set day to publish, so both slid.
The project keeps a running ideas list, a weekly writing session, a publishing checklist and a light look back each quarter.
Tips from the template
- Add every idea to the ideas section the moment you have it.
- Choose next week's post from the list on Sunday.
- Publish on the same day each week or fortnight.
How to use it in ActivityTracker
- 1Open Tasks and choose Templates.
- 2Find Blog writing schedule and open it. You see every section and task before anything is added.
- 3Pick the day you start, or the day it has to be done by. Every date moves with it.
- 4Press Use template. Rename the project, then work down the list.
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