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.
Later in life, I realize that too much reliance on tools is not something I’m fond of. DSri’s tools (printables) are good and I usually do it when I’m helping out team members, and others looking for guardrails for their productivity. For me now, the tools are too tool-focused and I no longer need them. I have printed and used them for product groups, and even a few times for my daughter’s projects with her friends.
I ask in full seriousness, as someone struggling decades with how to plan and then do personal and professional tasks. I ask as a question, not as a criticism.
Otherwise, you were working on a task and something fail in your terminal; by evening you realize you spent the last 4 hours fixing your entire dotfiles, fixing environment, shell, and what-not to move easily between machines smoothly (you also realized you are not moving machines anytime soon).
The Frog to Eat that you wrote down yesterday for today, and the other tasks that has to be done today is there for you to see - bright, and clear - helps you steer back when your minds starts to wander, phone distracts, and HN is tempting for more comments.
The year is split in two (ample space for notes) and it has week numbers. At work I print the year on two A3.
[0] https://barish.me/blog/make-your-website-printable-with-css/
However, while these rules apply for web pages, I would like to... let's say warn all developers expecting CSS is a good option for accurate printing.
It may work for single page printouts or "make this page more printable" approaches, but don't expect it to be an easy opt out of providing PDFs for every single use case.
CSS for printing gets annoying pretty quick as soon as you have some more sophisticated requirements. You should probably also know that print-CSS is not fully cross browser compatible - there are quirks and caveats for every single one of them regarding font sizing, margin, padding and page-layouts.
I would not recommend to use HTML + CSS for something that really needs to be exactly the same layout in every browser.
FWIW, I also have had also success with running a server-side headless chromium instance on an app where I was generating nicely formatted exam from provided questions.
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.
If you want something for your examples, this would be the German-localized version for 2026: https://abetusk.github.io/neatocal/?year=2026&weekday_code=S...
[0] https://github.com/abetusk/neatocal?tab=readme-ov-file#prese...
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!
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. ;-)
The older I am, the more I use good old fashion analogue tools like pencil and paper.
It's hard to write on such small boxes.
P.S. Maybe I should just remove the part in parentheses, since a number of people are completely ignoring it.
[0]: Surely you know what printing and paper are, and how someone would jot something down, so that part comes across as ridiculing the idea.
I attempted to jocularly make a point (e.g., I don't carry a pen or pencil and I almost never print anything, and I'm far from the only person who has made this sort of change in life practice) and the parenthetical was supposed to help to understand what it was and ward off the sort of criticism you're making, but apparently it was futile or even backfired, as it seems that a lot of people missed it and lashed out with hostility ... they should consider https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/6k68hi/the_prin....
> Surely you know what printing and paper are, and how someone would jot something down, so that part comes across as ridiculing the idea.
See, you completely and uncharitably misunderstood what I was attempting to convey. Yes, of course I know what those things are, but I no longer use them. People would jot things down with a pen or pencil, but that requires having a pen or pencil handy ... I almost never do, as a matter of ==> my <== work habits. That's the whole point of the parenthetical--that this is ==> my <== perspective. It doesn't "ridicule" people who do things differently, but it does allude to the fact that the world has changed (radically, speaking as a lifelong early adopter and a pioneer developer [I'm mentioned in RFC #57] for the last 3/4 century ... so much for insults that get thrown my way--including on HN today--as a "boomer" on a regular basis).
I won't comment on this again.