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@Greenbank
I plan my routes on gpxeditor.co.uk which was written by someone on yacf. I pay for the premium membership which means I can do some extra bits such as save routes and import them.
Like others I love the planning part, and so I often spend a lot more time planning rides than actually going out and doing them. I used to be limited to a single weekday whilst my daughter was at school (so limited to 9.15am to 2.30pm) but she's off to/from school by herself now so it frees up more of the day.
I export the kml file of unexplored squares from veloviewer, convert that to a gpx file (using a random kml -> gpx converter) and then I've got my own script to minimise the number of lines/points/tracks.
I can then upload this and plan my routes accordingly.
I tend to do out and back routes that try and cover to adjacent squares at a time each way, once you get into the sticks this can be tricky and so it sometimes becomes a route that will pick a three wide set of squares on the out and back routes combined.
Here's a pic of my planned rides from a few years ago:-
This was before the extension mentioned above was reliable enough to use...
Will get back into it after the summer holidays, too busy right now.