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They don't list the 2023 version on their webpage, but it is located here: https://jonathanbrochu.com/thumb-cals/tc-2023_en-us.pdf and https://jonathanbrochu.com/thumb-cals/tc-2023_en-us_extra-wd...

Just in time for 2024!

This looks pretty cool, but (to me) it would be way easier to understand if there was a square-on picture with thumbs in place, showing how to read the visible parts of the card.

https://i.imgur.com/3wdGjaI.png

This is similar to David Seah's compact calendar, which has been featured here a few times in the past: https://davidseah.com/node/compact-calendar/

I've been working on a simple calendar app too that is based on this layout. I find the layout cleaner and simpler to comprehend time passing over a year.

[1] https://calii.tiimo.app/

Thanks for sharing this, I've been using a variation of this layout on my own simple vertical/horizontal planner[1], but David's looks a lot prettier.

[1] https://github.com/dattiimo/yearplanner

It is something quite different.

Compact Calendar is continuous and Thumb Calendar is many months at the same time in single place.

What makes them similar is their focus on being printed.

I love this, it makes a perfect reMarkable template page

I had a Casio calculator that could show calendars like this. It could also play do-re-mi when you pressed digits and you could set an alarm with a jolly tune. And when I pressed the square root key repeatedly, the number got smaller and smaller until it showed 1. This was the 80s and it was my most precious thing.

>the number got smaller and smaller until it showed 1

Integer or floating point?

I think old school calculators use bcd.

For those wondering how to use it: here’s a picture on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/adam_sporka/398045889/

I'm curious, when would you use this?

As far as I can recall, the only time I need to know day-of-month is when scheduling and I need my actual calendar with existing appointments for that.

I dunno, it sounds like the kind of thing someone with a filofax would have in their wallet, same energy as a slide ruler, conversion tables on paper, etc.

It's handy to know if some date is a weekend or not. Or some specific day of the week where you're generally busy.

Or to check where Christmas falls or something like that.

Ultimately it's a little thing to keep in your wallet. Not something to replace an appointment diary.

Check out the Doomsday Rule.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule

I learned this years ago and it is life changing. It can be used to figure out the day of the week of any day in a couple seconds.

For example, the rule immediately tells me that Boxing Day is a Tuesday[0], so I know Christmas falls on a Monday this year.

[0] as does 3/14, 4/4, 5/9, 6/6, 7/4, 7/11, 8/8, 9/5, 10/10, 10/31, 11/7, and 12/12 since those anchor points are always on the same “doomsday”. Based on that, any day is just a little bit of addition/subtraction.

I don't understand why you need thumbs at all, there are already all kinds of visual guides mapping the months.

They're handy for grasping objects.

Hitch-hiking

Related ongoing thread:

The Compact Calendar 2023-2024 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37869809 - Oct 2023 (15 comments)

I'm guessing... you take two post-it notes, and fence them on either side of the headers.

For april that means you wrap it around at the 3rd (Thursday) to the 4th (Friday...)

No need to guess, the very first header is 'How It Works'..

that's not a visual guide, and the thumbs along with above and below mentioned are confusing.

Your thumbs run vertically along the sides of the card, parallel to each other. You use them to cover anything to the sides of the month header(/footer) you're looking at. I think it's that "not under or above" description from the link that's confusing.

Find the header/footer for the right month. Use your thumbs to cover everything to the right or left.

Doesn't a thumb then obscure the label of the month you're identifying?

Not if you put them to the right and left of the month's label. That's the whole point. The thumbs cover everything to the right and left of the label.

Are there any other good websites that have these kind of printable tools?

https://blankcalendarpages.com/monday-calendar

Around two years ago I was looking for a nice calendar on Amazon, but then I decided to just try to print one out. Since then I've been printing my monthly calendar and use it as a sort of logbook. It doesn't contain future things I need to be reminded of, I use Google Calendar for that.

would be way more useful if it showed a highlighted example of one.

won't let me look certificate bad

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