Need 5 minute daily planner to manage the chaos

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After loosing my job of 20 years in January I began work as a dog walker.

I know mumsnet can be suspicious of dog walkers so I'll clarify that I'm insured, trained, and a responsible walker who puts dogs safety and happiness before anything else.

It's taken off well but I'm struggling a great deal planning my day to shoehorn various visits, short walks, long walks, group walks in. It's taking me hours of sweat and tears to plan each day.

I think maybe a daily planner showing increments of 5 minutes of time might help. I haven't been able to find such a thing- can anyone help. Ideally it needs to run about 9am - 4pm.

Sounds like you have taken on too much and there's not enough hours in the day tbh

I can't see that having to account for every 5min section in the day is going to help your time management either

You need some sort of appointment system, working out a lunch time, your most popular times and the maximum amount of dogs you can take on, making sure that you are not crossing over yourself or having to waste travel time

You can use outlook in 5 minute increments?

Your phone calendar?

Thanks for the responses. I should have been more clear that it's a paper based thing that I need- something I can print off and use daily.

It's not as simple as deciding what works best for me in terms of the timing of bookings as to some extent I need to take the needs of my customers into account....

I would make something bespoke in Excel or Google Sheets and print it off. I think you can get it to auto fill cells if you give it a pattern and then drag fill...? So if you type 09:05, in the first cell and. 9:10 in the second, then select both cells and drag the little cross in the corner... It should auto fill in five minute increments. Then fiddle around to get the format how you like it and print.