General Project Planner — Any project, planned like the big ones.
Whatever you’re taking on, a budget with a contingency, guides written for your project, and a checklist from the scope to the final payment.
- Free to start
- No sign-up to try
- Plan together
Everything in one plan
The quotes, the payments and the to-do list for a project usually live in texts, emails and a notebook. Here they’re one.
Includes a project checklist.
Budget
A number for the work, and one for the surprises.
The labour, the materials and a contingency buffer, so the project has a total before the first quote comes in.
$1,800 · Labor and services $1,500 · Wrap-up and extras $300The “Hired project” example’s budget
- Labour, services and materials
- A contingency for what nobody quoted
- Every line in pictures, with a typical price
Budget 1/3
Recommendations
Guides written for your project, whatever it is.
Tell it what you’re doing and the guides follow: what to put in the scope, which trades you need, what permits apply and how to pay in stages.
How should payment be structured across milestones to protect both parties?A guide in the example’s recommendations
- Scope, trades and lead times
- Permits, inspections and approvals
- Paying in stages, and what to keep at closeout
A guide 2/2
Checklist & timeline
From the scope to the final payment.
Map the long-lead dates, review the quotes, plan the work, set payment milestones and quality checks, and wrap it up, each in the week it needs doing.
Review quotes and scopeThe example’s project checklist
- Grouped by how far ahead of the start it is
- Quality checkpoints before the last payment
- Receipts and warranties kept with the plan
Project checklist 1/4
Start with whatever you’re taking on. Picture it done.
Free to start. No sign-up to try.
Start your project plan →About the General Project Planner
Some projects do not fit a category — a garage cleanout, a fence install, tax paperwork, a community effort. The General Project Planner is the flexible fallback: a scope, a real-date timeline, a budget, and a checklist, with costs scaled by the budget level, complexity, and approach you choose instead of category-specific assumptions.
Start from the blank-slate structure, rename or delete any line, add your own, and set your own dates. Save it, share it with whoever is involved, and export to CSV or PDF. If your project matches a dedicated planner — renovation, event, launch, and more — start there instead and keep this one for everything else.
What you can do
- Fits any project: scope, timeline, budget, and checklist
- Costs scale by budget level, complexity, and approach
- Every line renameable, deletable, and editable in place
- Real-date timeline with your own milestones
- Save, share, CSV, and PDF export
Frequently asked questions
When should I use this instead of a dedicated planner?
Use a dedicated planner when one matches — renovation, party, business launch, medical, and the rest seed costs specific to that job. Use this one when the project does not fit a category, or when you want a minimal structure you shape yourself.
What does the plan actually include?
Four things: a scoped list of budget lines, a timeline anchored to your start and finish dates, a running total against your budget level, and a checklist of the non-money tasks. All of it is editable, saveable, and shareable.
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Photos by Vitaly Gariev and Joel Mott on Unsplash.