Separate Exam, Academic, and Professional Collections into Plans
A good daily routine for a writing exam is short and fixed: 20 to 30 minutes a day on one model text, starting with whatever did not pass last time, plus one timed piece a week as the exam gets close. In Scripta you set that up as a plan. Give each purpose and deadline its own plan and count the daily goal in items, minutes, or paragraphs, and an exam deadline and long-term style practice stop displacing each other in one Today list.
When should you split practice into separate plans?
Next week’s exam answer, daily academic practice, and occasional professional messages deserve different plans.
Collections with the same purpose can stay together. More plans are not a goal by themselves.
How much should the daily goal be?
Choose which collections a plan covers and set its daily goal by item count, study time, or paragraphs. Counted in paragraphs, “three a day” means a paragraph’s sentences plus writing your own paragraph, as one unit.
Begin with a load you can keep on an ordinary weekday. Returning tomorrow matters before exceeding today.
What does Today open each day?
Start today opens the sentences and paragraphs the plan has placed for the day. A sentence goes through ① Learn the example → ② Structure → ③ My sentence, and a paragraph through to ③ My paragraph, as one flow.
Before an exam, lead with sentences and paragraphs that have not passed; while learning a new text, give new items more room by changing the review balance.
How do you see where you are in a text?
Continue on the collection page takes the text paragraph by paragraph: a few sentences of a paragraph, then that paragraph, then the next. The text map shows each paragraph’s sentences as dots (passed, retry, not yet), each paragraph as written, rewrite, or not yet, and marks “You are here”.
Tap a paragraph to continue from it. The practice header’s “Text › Paragraph 2 › Sentence 3 / 8” points to the same place. Work done in free practice counts the same.
What does a plan look like four weeks before an exam?
Suppose the exam is four weeks away and you have one collection holding three model answers. Make one plan for that collection alone and set the daily goal to one paragraph. One paragraph means taking its sentences through the three steps and then writing your own paragraph in the same order of roles. At that pace a four-paragraph answer takes one working week.
In weeks one to three, finish one model answer a week, each through to My own text. In week four, change the review balance so that sentences and paragraphs that have not passed come first, and take the exam from the collection’s Exam card twice, on different days, under its timer. The weakest paragraph role the exam points to is the next day’s practice.
Keep practice that has nothing to do with the exam, such as work emails, in a second plan with a smaller goal. That way it does not crowd the exam work out of Today.
What can you hand to AI planning?
An exam date and short note let AI set a strategy inside the current scope. It is a priority for what remains, not a permanent timetable.
AI planning may use credits; the direct plan continues without it. The calendar recalculates completed and remaining work before placing the next practice.
A plan is easiest to read when it carries one deadline and one learning purpose.