Calendar

The neatnik calendar is very nice. Others are talking about enhancements they've done and I've done my own, creating a pretty faithful JavaScript implementation with enhancements:

https://github.com/abetusk/neatocal

https://abetusk.github.io/neatocal/ (demo)

URL parameters can be used to alter behavior. Here's a highlight of some of them:

https://abetusk.github.io/neatocal/?layout=aligned-weekdays&... (weekend highlighted, aligned)

https://abetusk.github.io/neatocal/?start_month=7 (academic)

https://abetusk.github.io/neatocal/?start_month=6&n_month=6 (second half, 6 month)

https://abetusk.github.io/neatocal/?month_code=1%E6%9C%88,2%... (chinese month and day)

There's also a data file option for more complex date notes.

CSS rules for printing is one of my favorite features of the web. You get a powerful typesetter directly in your browser. For those wondering how it's done, I wrote about it [0] recently for my friends who frequently asked how I generated PDFs for my blogs.

[0] https://barish.me/blog/make-your-website-printable-with-css/

Daveseah.com was a favorite bookmark for me -- his "printable CEO" series of task planners and calendars were cool.

I have since fallen off the productivity wagon unfortunately.

For many years past I have printed and used stacks of the Emergent Task Planner.

He has a Compact Calendar that has somewhat similar layout as OP.

Edit to add link:

https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/

The website domain seems to have changed a bit.

The info box doesn't mention this but it also has an alternative layout where days are aligned by weekdays: https://neatnik.net/calendar/?layout=aligned-weekdays

That's good, you should also give me a way to hide the modal to actually see the calendar before I go for printing. Nice work.

What if... we removed the month-ends?

I typically imagine time as a line, so I wondered what it would look like if days were rects in one line, just word-wrapped. It doesn't auto-adjust to page size, but 75% zoom works fine for printing in my case.

https://igormartynov.com/calendar2026.html

This is a really clever tool. I love the clean, one-page layout for tracking habits over a full year.

One suggestion: would it be possible to add a quarterly version? Like three months per page, or separate pages for each quarter? It'd be great for shorter-term goals without everything feeling so crammed on one sheet.

Thanks for making and sharing this!

In Sweden this format is called Hallon-almanackan (the raspberry almanack). I build an implementation here: thttps://hallonalmanackan.kodare.com/

I've used recalendar.js the past few years for my eInk devices:

https://github.com/klimeryk/recalendar.js

This is awesome, but my one suggestion is to abbreviate Thursday as "R" instead of "T" to avoid confusion with Tuesday.

This is how almost all calendars do it when there is only one letter for the day, so it's pretty standard.

I did something, much simpler, some time back in Google Sheets. Around year-end, I go and edit the location of the starting dates each month (drag around, some formatting). I also like the weekdays lined up instead. Use it more as a bigger-picture timeline/schedule for the year, for the family, and me.

Here is the template from last year that I shared with friends. If you are looking at it, take this as a base or an idea and build on it — finances, big life events, travel, etc.

The “Year” tab is kinda like a big-picture plan of where family members are in their years, education, and, hence, significant life events. As the months go by in the year, just fold/hide that portion.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YwAf8vgVR0FbTU6n1dVO...

PS. I’m tinkering with moving to a plainer text format this year, in MarkDown planning for a 10-year, 20-year, 30-years, and then kinda brain-simulation of what might be in 50 or even 100 years after I’m gone. I plan for the family/generation as an entity and I just insert myself as one of the role in it. ;-)

For those living in other parts of the world here ya go:

https://neatnik.net/calendar/?sofshavua=1&year=2026

Margins need to be a bit larger.

When printed, "2026" at the top is cut in half and at the bottom "31st" cells are cut right through the slab of 1. On the left side all but last few pixels of dates are cut off, and the last column is visibly narrower than the rest.

This is in Firefox on Windows.

This is BRILLIANT!! Thank You. Such as simple idea I wonder I have never thought of doing it myself. I currently have Stick notes to do list but it is a little messy with some date on it.

The older I am, the more I use good old fashion analogue tools like pencil and paper.

Weekly version in sheets makes more sense for me, since almost everything in my year is split logically by week — https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18YsOpI4GsxKGZmpMRQcN...

Generated using this JS in an action script — https://gist.github.com/anfedorov/9f7dc03432a4da783577aec68f...

I cant close the modal?

Saw this last year and liked it so much I added something very similar to it to Infumap (https://github.com/infumap/infumap). You can drag items of arbitrary type onto dates. When more than one item is associated with a date, a numbered button appears; clicking it lets you cycle through them. Items can be pages or links to pages, which when clicked show the page as a popup. Calendar pages in the parent page display as a list of all items scheduled for the next seven days.

Neat, but it takes two pages on printing in the landscape orientation in Firefox on either A4 or US letter paper sizes here, with minimal font size set to 16. Generally matching of text dimensions to container dimensions is unreliable if you take into account browser settings (not just minimal font size, but also things like differing fonts and disabled custom fonts), and perhaps an SVG image with pre-rendered texts would be more appropriate for such a task. Or even a more pages-oriented format, and for different paper sizes.

Your app inspired me to make a collaborative version

https://calendar.yups.me/

I have a 3’x4’ dry erase version of this calendar format on my office wall. Bought it cheap on Amazon a few years ago. Put work travel dates, anniversaries, birthdays, vacations, etc on it. It’s nice to be able to see the “big picture” at a glance, and my kids love putting their own dates on it such as when they think Halloween decorations should be put up lol.

I've used a Google Sheet exactly like this. Highlighted weekends and laid out with all days of the year. Export as PDF can fit on a single sheet of paper. But I also print it out on a huge paper and hang it up for my family. [https://bettersheets.co/bigyear]

This is really nice. I keep track of most important habits to me like how often I go to gym, how much protein I eat everyday, and how many days I read (books), on something physical (pen and paper). Mostly on monthly calendars. This would make tracking each of them separately on a single piece of paper across the entire year pretty neat.

Here's a [Danish spoken] page to make a PDF calendar for any year in Danish, English, Norwegian, or Swedish: https://kalendersiden.dk/

Nice. It would be nice to have an option to create a per month print as well.

I love the simple layout and idea of this calendar. Very nice! I do however miss some localizations. Is this calendar made for any specific country in mind? Is it possible to change? :)

I can't seem to dismiss the welcome message on mobile.

I used to make these for myself and found them very helpful for planning out the year. Mine had only one difference, which was aligning the days of the week between each month.

As an enhancement, it would be cool to be able to spread into multiple pages. 1 month per page, or 2 months per page, ..., 12 months per page.

It's hard to write on such small boxes.

This looks neat, not exactly sure how useful such a tiny space for each day would be by itself.

I took the complete opposite approach with Wiseday, giving each day its own page (and each waking hour some space too.)

Example: https://imgur.com/a/LjSDPw9

V1 releasing on iOS as soon as Apple finishes reviewing if anyone wants to try (waitlist at https://wisedayplanner.com/waitlist/)

Clean, readable, and refreshingly boring in the best possible way. Sometimes a calendar should just… be a calendar. Bookmarking this for 2026.

What does the dark background mean? I could only see it inside my print preview (see Fiveplus comment). Otherwise I like.

Anyone able to print this via Android? When I tap 3-dots in chrome → share→print I am getting an error

Unfortunately it doesn't take kindly the futurists who like to spell years with a starting 0, like "02026” - https://neatnik.net/calendar/?year=02026

This proves once and for all that civilization will not last until the decamillenium and you're just doing octal.

This is like a video that I saw where a carpenter uses very high end equipment and skills to create a phone holder to be placed on a desk.

We ran out of real work and real problems.

Tech and machinery is far ahead of the needs of humanity. Yes, you can create and print a single page calendar or carve out a phone holder, but when you think of it's usage, you are not going to need it - YAGNI.

Can anyone recommend a native macOS app with a calendar like this that supports .ics calendars?

Very nice, but on an A4 sheet the last row is cut off and you need to manually shrink it

The popup on the page doesn't close. It's irritating. Please fix it.

I like the highlighting of weekends, but wish the weekends aligned across months.

Realized, timely, and definite.

Perfect post.

Adding one letter to the day of the week would be way less confusing.