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> The problem I have is not that I haven't planned correctly, it's that I do not follow my plan. reply

if you don't follow the plan, you haven't planned correctly. a good plan has built-in mechanisms to make you follow it. OP's project tries to give you one potential mechanism for that.

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>> if you don't follow the plan, you haven't planned correctly.

Nope. Procrastination is a psychological problem, not a planning problem. You can create the most perfect plan, but if you don't have the mental discipline to ignore distractions, combined with mechanisms to manage those you can't ignore, your plan will be worthless.

Sometimes, not following the plan is exactly the right thing to (not) do. Remember: you always have more information now than when you made those plans.

I like to think of plans as sane defaults - "do this, unless you have a good reason to do something else". Just having a default improves my time management significantly.

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