Daily agenda: what it is and what it means

The daily agenda is the tool, on paper or in electronic format, with which you record commitments, deadlines and blocks of activity, and with which you decide what to spend time on in the next twenty-four hours. The term comes from the Latin agenda, the neuter plural of the gerundive agendum: "the things to be done." The agenda does more than hold information: it directs attention to what to do today, separating the record of commitments from the decision-making tool.

Distinctive: directs attention
Distinctive: decision-making tool
Essential: record commitments, deadlines and blocks of activity
Essential: decide what to spend time on
Essential: in the next twenty-four hours
Constant: on paper or in electronic format

Glossary

Daily agenda

A tool, on paper or digital, used to record commitments, deadlines and blocks of activity and to decide what to spend time on in the next twenty-four hours.