One thing I did for a couple of resources (that I am using from the Sonlight curriculum) is this:
Instead of putting 1, 2, 3 in the spaces for chapter numbers, I put “Sonlight assignment” where the word ‘chapter’ might go, and then I put 1-1 for week one Monday and then 1-2 for week one Tuesday…. 16-4 would mean week sixteen Thursday. The chapter numbers or page numbers for the assignment go at the beginning of the description line then. I don’t always stick to it (sometimes we do a couple of assignments in a day and other times we miss) but I can always see at a glance if we are keeping sorta ‘on schedule’. We have a baby due on Christmas Day, so I’d like quite a few of the books I have scheduled to be finished up before we take a nice break for a month or so this winter. Since there are 36 weeks in the Sonlight curriculum and a pregnancy is about 40 weeks, it’s easy for me to determine how far along we should be by how pregnant I am!
It’s a little extra work, but maybe that’s an idea for some people who want to have a more predetermined schedule.