Planner
Interview prep time planner
This is for anyone with a fixed number of hours before an interview who is not sure what to do first. Type how many hours you can really spend, and the planner returns a list in priority order with minutes for each task. It works for 30 minutes or for two days.
Nothing you enter is stored or sent anywhere.
The rule it uses
The planner keeps a fixed list of eleven tasks (twelve if you tick the technical box), ordered from most to least valuable: the role summary, your opening answer, logistics, your stories, technical refresh, a spoken run-through, company facts, questions to ask, one full practice interview, deeper research and a light final review. Each task has a minimum and an ideal number of minutes. Working from the top, each task takes up to its ideal while time remains, and the walk stops at the first task that cannot get even its minimum.
In practice that means more time never removes anything: a longer plan includes every task a shorter plan has, with the same or more minutes each. At one hour you get the role summary, the opening answer, logistics and the start of your stories. At three hours you add the spoken run-through, company facts and questions. A technical refresh asks for at least 30 minutes, so it appears once you have enough time for it.
What it does not do
It does not know your role, your experience or how the employer interviews, and the minutes are sensible defaults, not measured results. If a task is already done, skip it and spend the time on the next one. If the interview is high stakes or technical, the ideal minutes may be too low for you. Time left over is reported rather than filled with busywork, because extra hours are often better spent on sleep or on spreading practice across days. Rules of thumb like these cannot predict how an interview will go.
Where this comes from
The task order, the minute budgets and the advice to skip trivia and word-for-word scripts follow this site's guide to preparing with limited time. The emphasis on a role summary, a short opening answer and a few reusable stories matches what university career centres commonly recommend for interview preparation. The planner is general information, not career advice.