The Compact Calendar 2023-2024

I like this, I'll print it out and colour in the days of my bin collections.

Here's an even more compact calendar: https://time.is/compact_calendar -- too compact to be using for planning the year ahead however!

BTW, in 2024 you can re-use your old calendars from 1996, 1968 and 1940 that you have lying around... https://www.whencanireusethiscalendar.com/

I discovered Dave Seah's printable CEO series of tools and templates early in my working career (some 15+ years ago) and found them super practical and useful.

I have diligently used (my own variation of) his Emergent Task Planner for many years and it served me well.

I was proud of how organized I was. Kept years of daily planners as proof.Still have them in my attic I think.

Then life happened. Marriage, kids, moving countries, changes jobs, no longer an individual contributor but responsiblefor teams ... and sorry to report I fell of that productivity wagon. I wish and hope to get back into better daily routine. Maybe I should rediscover his tools and make them mine again.

Was curious how long it would take me to throw something like this together using React, TypeScript, and CSS Grid. Here it is if anyone's else is interested [0] (purposefully in a not super performant way for simplicities sake). Even tried to get it to print on one page if you just constrain it to a year (try viewing it in it's own window, like this [1], if you want to attempt to print it in order to see that).

[0]: https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/compact-calendar-zqp4rz?fil...

[1]: https://zqp4rz-5173.csb.app/

I always wondered why most software calendars always put a line break between months. Feels like a vestige of wall calendars and oddly forced pagination.

I had dumb experiments like this a long time ago as well - https://roflopoly.com/infinical

I made a similar template in LaTeX I'll share here in case it's useful to anyone: https://github.com/lukehsiao/latex-year

He has a lot of other useful trackers on his page. I’ve been using them off and on (the Emergent Task Timer) probably since it came out ~17 years ago. (Just yesterday I was thinking I should print some off and use them. It took me a minute to realize this was on the same site.)

The Google Spreedsheets version : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1m1IWh6Mmli8K20DdH2wb...

My pet project is a web app that uses a similar view of the year https://calii.tiimo.app. I find the continuation of the months easier to comprehend time passing in a year.

I always liked this compact linear calendar format for planning and estimating. I use it often, with weeks on the left, and my list of tasks on the right.

I wrote a command-line app similar to `cal` to generate them in simple plain text: https://npmjs.com/package/calx

`calx 2024` will give you next year’s calendar.

I've been keeping a spreadsheet with calendar like this for a few years. It let's me more easily plan future trips, track "scheduling todos" and move things around. Once they are final I move them to a normal calendar for day to day use.

Creating a calendar was a fun project in my Introduction to Typograph class c1991. Trying to remember if I was still using the Mac SE or I had the Mac 660AV by then. lol.

Lots of reimagining was in play

Related ongoing thread:

The Thumb Calendar - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37866999 - Oct 2023 (29 comments)

Neat, thanks for sharing. I've forwarded this to all the friendly product owners and other management.

d3js made this style popular ~10 years ago when d3 made a big splash https://observablehq.com/@d3/calendar

No thumbs required :)