[HN Gopher] Calendar
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       Calendar
        
       Author : twapi
       Score  : 919 points
       Date   : 2025-12-28 05:02 UTC (17 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (neatnik.net)
 (TXT) w3m dump (neatnik.net)
        
       | Fiveplus wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | tombert wrote:
         | I just looked at the print preview in Firefox. Worked fine for
         | me.
        
           | krick wrote:
           | I removed it with devtools, so surely there is a dozen of
           | work-arounds, but, still, it just weird that a page that is
           | supposed to show a calendar, doesn't show a calendar.
        
             | jazzyjackson wrote:
             | The website isn't the calendar... The print is, so if you
             | Ctrl p, you can see what you'll get, that's not a
             | workaround it's the purpose of the website, I guess I'm
             | confused how you're confused lol
        
       | pests wrote:
       | What does the dark background mean? I could only see it inside my
       | print preview (see Fiveplus comment). Otherwise I like.
        
         | lifthrasiir wrote:
         | Saturday and Sunday. Looking at the source, it also accepts
         | `sofshavua=1` options to highlight Fridays and Saturdays
         | instead.
        
           | pests wrote:
           | Oh duh, parsed it wrong - too used to 30day calendar views.
        
       | shimonabi wrote:
       | Adding one letter to the day of the week would be way less
       | confusing.
        
         | bt1a wrote:
         | No need to look too closely, now ;)
        
           | RheingoldRiver wrote:
           | I think they mean writing Tu Th Sa Su instead of T T S S
           | (personally I'm a fan of T / theta if I'm doing single-letter
           | abbreviations but Sat/Sun is still not the best)
        
             | lifthrasiir wrote:
             | Maybe we should all adopt Chinese weekday names: Sunday
             | (Xing Qi Ri ) remains same, Firstday (Xing Qi Yi ) for
             | Monday, Seconday (Xing Qi Er ) for Tuesday, Thirday (Xing
             | Qi San ) for Wednesday, Fourthday (Xing Qi Si ) for
             | Thursday, Fifthday (Xing Qi Wu ) for Friday and Sixthday
             | (Xing Qi Yuk ) for Saturday. One-letter abbreviations would
             | be simply S, 1 through 6.
        
               | throwaway5465 wrote:
               | Why downvoted? This is correct.
        
               | dotancohen wrote:
               | I believe that's how Russian names the days as well. In
               | Hebrew and Arabic we do the same, but Sunday is First
               | Day, Monday is Second Day, etc.
        
               | romandr wrote:
               | Not all of them, though:
               | 
               | Monday - "ponedel'nik", which is coming from the "day
               | after the (previous) week", i.e. after the Sunday Tuesday
               | - "vtornik", true here, has "second" in the name
               | Wednesday - "sreda", has "middle" in the name Thursday -
               | "chetverg", also true, has "fourth" in the name Friday -
               | "piatnitsa", also true, has "fifth" in the name Saturday
               | - "subbota", derived from the Hebrew "shabbat" Sunday -
               | "voskresen'e", almost the same word as "voskresenie",
               | which is the Christian Church word for the Resurrection
               | (of Jesus Christ)
        
             | card_zero wrote:
             | Thorn, Th, seems a more natural choice. The rune is called
             | _thurs,_ even.
             | 
             | I guess there's katakana Sa sa and Su su, if that's an
             | improvement.
        
               | RheingoldRiver wrote:
               | yeah, but I was a math major and theta looks like a
               | normal letter to me whereas thorn takes me a sec to
               | realize what I'm looking at
               | 
               | I like the katakana idea, I wonder if I can train myself
               | to recognize the Su one enough to start using that when
               | I'm handwriting days of the week places
        
       | primaprashant wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | lifthrasiir wrote:
       | 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
        
         | nullhole wrote:
         | The same, but for the year 2026:
         | https://neatnik.net/calendar/?year=2026&layout=aligned-weekd...
        
       | thatwasunusual wrote:
       | Nice. It would be nice to have an option to create a per month
       | print as well.
        
       | mac-attack wrote:
       | I've used recalendar.js the past few years for my eInk devices:
       | 
       | https://github.com/klimeryk/recalendar.js
        
       | Sayyidalijufri wrote:
       | 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!
        
         | r0fl wrote:
         | Copy and paste the html into an ai tool and ask for your
         | suggestions
         | 
         | Should be able to one shot that in Gemini, ChatGPT or Claude
        
       | Oarch wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | yussif_17 wrote:
       | For those living in other parts of the world here ya go:
       | 
       | https://neatnik.net/calendar/?sofshavua=1&year=2026
        
         | lifthrasiir wrote:
         | Append `&sofshavua=1` to the URL.
        
           | dotancohen wrote:
           | Interesting. Sofshavua means weekend in Hebrew.
        
       | kamphey wrote:
       | 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]
        
         | sejje wrote:
         | Man, a marketing landing page for a calendar. That's really
         | something.
         | 
         | I doubt HN is your market. Everything about that page made me
         | want to run in fear. And I don't trust your download link.
         | 
         | I expected some dude's blog with an .xlsx upload or something.
         | I would have a lot more trust there.
         | 
         | What am I giving up by using yours? What's in it for you?
        
       | didip wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | divbzero wrote:
       | I like the highlighting of weekends, but wish the weekends
       | aligned across months.
        
         | stellalo wrote:
         | https://neatnik.net/calendar/?year=2026&layout=aligned-weekd...
        
       | math wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | Brajeshwar wrote:
       | 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. ;-)
        
         | nkko wrote:
         | This is a very smart idea. Life orienteering, we are all
         | running in life and some predefined checkpoints would be nice.
        
       | jibal wrote:
       | Print? Paper? Jot down with what? My calendar in the cloud
       | performs these functions far better (from my perspective and work
       | habits).
       | 
       | P.S. Maybe I should just remove the part in parentheses, since a
       | number of people are completely ignoring it.
        
         | andsoitis wrote:
         | Give it a shot.
        
         | f_allwein wrote:
         | Which calendar is that? I haven't found one with a decent year
         | view similar to the one here.
        
         | barnabee wrote:
         | You're likely being downvoted not because there's anything
         | wrong with having an opinion but because this feels like a low
         | effort comment that contributes little to nothing, and comes
         | across as quite negative and dismissive[0]. There's nothing to
         | engage with or spark curiosity and the parentheses don't help
         | with that.
         | 
         | [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.
        
           | jibal wrote:
           | Patronizing speculation on the reasons for downvotes (who gaf
           | about such things? And for that matter I had a net gain today
           | despite this) contributes nothing of value and explicitly
           | violates one of HN's guidelines: "Please don't comment about
           | the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes
           | boring reading."
           | 
           | 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://ww
           | w.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.
        
       | barishnamazov wrote:
       | 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/
        
         | Brajeshwar wrote:
         | Gutenberg[1] Print Styles has been my go-to for a very long
         | time. If I remember correctly, the issues I faced was that I
         | could not control pagination.
         | 
         | 1. https://github.com/BafS/Gutenberg
        
           | barishnamazov wrote:
           | Neat! I'll add it to my blog.
        
         | sandreas wrote:
         | Thank you for the nice (and still short) article - I really
         | liked it.
         | 
         | 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.
        
           | barishnamazov wrote:
           | Thanks for the feedback! Agreed, I too have experienced those
           | quirks. This applies to most modern CSS features in general
           | :-)
           | 
           | 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.
        
           | marczellm wrote:
           | Yeah we wanted something that would print with exact physical
           | sizes and there's no reliable support for that so we ended up
           | generating PDF with PDFium in WebAssembly.
        
           | TeMPOraL wrote:
           | OTOH, it's good enough that a webapp I vibe-coded in 5
           | minutes on the phone is better at typesetting and aligning
           | label stickers than _Microsoft Word_. Or at least _easier_
           | and gives correct results on the first try, vs. Word that
           | gives me correct results approximately never; I 've wasted
           | close to person-day fighting with it over the year already.
        
         | voussoir wrote:
         | Neat, I did one of these too :)
         | 
         | https://voussoir.net/writing/css_for_printing
        
       | abetusk wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | twapi wrote:
         | Thanks for sharing!
        
         | moontear wrote:
         | Awesome! Totally love your version as my first gripe was that I
         | can't adjust naming to fit my needs (localized, non-english).
         | Your JS version is awesome, thanks!
         | 
         | 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...
        
           | abetusk wrote:
           | Added to the list of presets in the README [0]. Thanks!
           | 
           | [0] https://github.com/abetusk/neatocal?tab=readme-ov-
           | file#prese...
        
             | b2ccb2 wrote:
             | It would be trivial to allow all possible languages with
             | toLocaleString[0]:                 d = new Date();
             | console.log(d.toLocaleString(window.navigator.language, {
             | weekday: 'short'       }));
             | 
             | [0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
             | US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
        
               | abetusk wrote:
               | Added a language field. Thanks for the suggestion.
               | 
               | Example:
               | 
               | https://abetusk.github.io/neatocal/?language=ko-KR
        
           | Eduard wrote:
           | MDMDFSS
           | 
           | naja
        
             | dmondok wrote:
             | https://abetusk.github.io/neatocal/?year=2026&weekday_code=
             | S...
        
       | albert_e wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | Brajeshwar wrote:
         | Big fan for a very long time and still appreciate his work. His
         | domain changed to follow his life choices.[1]
         | 
         | 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.
         | 
         | 1. https://dsriseah.com/about/sri/
        
           | dotancohen wrote:
           | These look great for people who like to plan their tasks. I
           | found that when I plan my tasks and plan my day and plan my
           | time bubbles, I spend so much time planning that I don't have
           | time left for doing. This planner explicitly encourages
           | having only three planned tasks for the day. What's wrong
           | with just doing those tasks without writing them down?
           | 
           | 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.
        
             | Brajeshwar wrote:
             | Writing down is a sign-post for you to stay in your lane.
             | 
             | 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.
        
               | dotancohen wrote:
               | I see, thanks.                 > Writing down is a sign-
               | post for you to stay in your lane.
               | 
               | I think I get it now. When I'm developing a feature, I'll
               | first write a commented git commit message. I'll refer
               | back to it every so often to ensure that whatever that
               | commit message says, that's what I'm doing. Everything
               | else that I want to do should go into an Org mode file
               | that is not committed.                 > #git commit -m
               | "Foo the bar"
               | 
               | Is what I'm debugging now directly related to fooing the
               | bar? If not, write it down and get back to fooing the
               | bar.
        
               | Brajeshwar wrote:
               | As we have come this far, here is another POV for writing
               | things down, when it comes to "NO" or "Not Now!" items
               | that get streamed in our lives.
               | 
               | You are working on something, but a cool/new/interesting
               | thing pops into your brain or someone pings/calls/texts
               | to tell you about something; your default is to do that
               | first lest you forget about it. No, Don't Do That.
               | Instead, write it down so you don't forget, but no need
               | to worry for now. Empathetically, if that item was from
               | someone (even in person), seeing you writing it down
               | suggests to the person that you care about it and will
               | definitely come back to it.
               | 
               | At the end of your day, during your break, or after your
               | task-at-hand is complete, visit and "decide" when/how you
               | want to do it, whether you need to do it, or if it has
               | solved on its own in the time you have ignored.
               | 
               | I do use Project Managers, Calendars, Apple
               | Notes/Obsidian, Phone Apps, etc., but if I use that as
               | "defaults" (not on physical pen/paper), I might get
               | tempted to finish something else along with it. That
               | note-taking in the same format as my primary work will
               | likely tempt me to do more and make it look like work or
               | productivity.
               | 
               | With a physical pen/paper, it is a clean, minimal, simple
               | UX that never distracts. That is how it is. I'm still
               | learning and experimenting, but so far I write as usual
               | in a notebook and kinda bullet-journal[1] backwards (mine
               | is simplified), starting from the last page of the same
               | notebook for tasks and to-dos. That one notebook is the
               | one that I carry around.
               | 
               | 1. https://bulletjournal.com/
        
               | dotancohen wrote:
               | So new tasks become a queue instead of a stack. Nice
               | idea!
        
               | bthallplz wrote:
               | Neat! I think I've done a similar thing in Jujutsu VCS,
               | which enables you to start a new commit and add a message
               | (description) to it well before you make any actual
               | changes. As you described, it's a really useful way of
               | keeping on track.
        
             | rjh29 wrote:
             | I feel like the entire productivity thing is broscience.
             | There's no study for it (the 'three items' idea), it just
             | feels like the right thing to do.
             | 
             | Quite often the people making these tools are not
             | particularly productive themselves. And nobody I know has
             | ever stuck to one productivity system for very long outside
             | of "todo list text file"
        
               | Brajeshwar wrote:
               | The idea is not about One Perfect/Right solution/tool.
               | Explore them and modify them to how you react and which
               | ones work for you. Use multiple tools (plain-text as
               | default, another App with the team, Notebooks for
               | yourself), etc. For someone struggling with too many
               | options, perhaps a little nudge to some direction is what
               | they needed. At the end of the day, It Depends.
               | https://brajeshwar.com/2024/it-depends/
        
             | r0fl wrote:
             | I find if I don't plan I get a lot less done
             | 
             | Planning shouldn't take that long
             | 
             | Do it while you're doing something else. You can plan when
             | you have your morning coffee, or while you commute or walk
             | isn't Apple voice memos and then copy the transcript and
             | paste it into ChatGPT and have it make you a todo list from
             | that messy memo
             | 
             | It shouldn't take you any additional time if you don't want
             | it to.
        
         | mikae1 wrote:
         | I prefer this one: https://veckonr.se/kalender/2026
         | 
         | The year is split in two (ample space for notes) and it has
         | week numbers. At work I print the year on two A3.
        
         | mkagenius wrote:
         | > I have since fallen off the productivity wagon unfortunately
         | 
         | If you don't mind sharing, what was the reason? I'm asking coz
         | these things and also note taking isn't sustainable for me at
         | all.
        
           | abustamam wrote:
           | Not OP but I used to be totally into productivity hacks and
           | being on top of things, goal setting, habit tracking,
           | everything.
           | 
           | I stopped when I realized I could just... Not, and still
           | thrive in my life. Simplify my systems.
           | 
           | I set myself a goal to workout every morning. Sometimes I
           | miss it because my infant daughter decides to wake up at 4am
           | instead of 5am. I give myself grace.
           | 
           | We eat largely the same meals every day. Some cooked protein,
           | some cooked veggies, and a grain (rice or pasta).
           | 
           | And I just have a regular routine at work where I work on
           | work and also do explorative education for myself during
           | breaks. Look into different frameworks, patterns, etc.
           | 
           | I didn't need to meticulously plan out every second of my
           | day, month, year. I just needed systems that made things
           | predictable. Sometimes I drop the ball and it's fine. I get
           | back on the horse when I can.
        
       | mesosan wrote:
       | Wow, I love this! Great job man
        
       | ksec wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | paozac wrote:
       | Very nice, but on an A4 sheet the last row is cut off and you
       | need to manually shrink it
        
       | inatreecrown2 wrote:
       | great idea, just printed it out and this will do for my calendar
       | next year!
        
       | Reventlov wrote:
       | Is it just me, or can't you close the big pop-in welcome info box
       | on firefox ?
        
         | dandersch wrote:
         | I had the same reaction and I think you are not supposed to
         | close it. Just go Menu -> Print (Ctrl+P) and you will see it
         | without the box.
        
       | zkmon wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | PaulRobinson wrote:
         | There are proven advantages to hand-writing out notes and
         | planning on paper over digital tools - the physical, tactile
         | experience engages your brain in different ways, and this has
         | been proven by multiple studies.
         | 
         | Digital tools are great. They're why they're here. But a lot of
         | people want paper for good reasons, and it's a very different
         | experience to wanting a wooden holder for your phone.
        
           | zkmon wrote:
           | I agree on the benefits of tactile experience. But it need
           | not come from paper, which is very modern thing. Information
           | is being sucked out from real world, into digital space.
           | College teachers are no longer writing on blackboards. Money
           | is no longer a physical thing. Work is being done in virtual
           | spaces. The only things that are left in physical world are
           | the information-less objects, just like how the world was
           | before invention of writing.
           | 
           | When information finds its natural habitat in the digital
           | space, we need to re-orient ourselves.
        
       | defanor wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | boxed wrote:
       | In Sweden this format is called Hallon-almanackan (the raspberry
       | almanack). I build an implementation here:
       | thttps://hallonalmanackan.kodare.com/
        
         | meteyor wrote:
         | Tack. :) I might use Stylus to change the layout a bit. But
         | actually just what I was looking for!
        
         | abetusk wrote:
         | Here's a rough draft of my interpretation:
         | 
         | https://abetusk.github.io/neatocal/?layout=hallon-almanackan
        
       | kseistrup wrote:
       | Here's a [Danish spoken] page to make a PDF calendar for any year
       | in Danish, English, Norwegian, or Swedish:
       | https://kalendersiden.dk/
        
         | encom wrote:
         | I use that all the time, and it's the only one in this thread
         | I've seen that displays week numbers, which is essential if you
         | are employed.
        
       | SenpaiHurricane wrote:
       | Now i have printed the year my wife has born, I will mark her
       | birthday only and give it to her as a gift. Thank you!
        
       | codersfocus wrote:
       | 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/)
        
       | runtimepanic wrote:
       | Clean, readable, and refreshingly boring in the best possible
       | way. Sometimes a calendar should just... be a calendar.
       | Bookmarking this for 2026.
        
       | dcreater wrote:
       | I cant close the modal?
        
         | pja wrote:
         | Just ctrl-p & look at the preview.
        
       | cwmoore wrote:
       | Realized, timely, and definite.
       | 
       | Perfect post.
        
       | pierridotite wrote:
       | Looks cool !
        
       | igor_mart wrote:
       | 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
        
         | bronco21016 wrote:
         | Oooooh I like this a lot! I had Claude Code make me something
         | in python quickly after I looked at the original post because I
         | also prefer viewing time horizontally. I had mine do each month
         | on a line. Sorry, didn't bother to host as a page. Here's the
         | HTML/CSS though
         | https://gist.github.com/bronco21016/d2d188c402b8e70c7bc115f4...
         | 
         | I like your layout a lot though so I might adapt that and there
         | is still probably room to add the month label at the beginning
         | of each month.
        
       | meteyor wrote:
       | 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? :)
        
       | neillyons wrote:
       | Can anyone recommend a native macOS app with a calendar like this
       | that supports .ics calendars?
        
       | huhtenberg wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | fogleman wrote:
         | Probably depends on your printer. And you should be able to
         | adjust margins in the print setup.
        
         | hrldcpr wrote:
         | yeah Firefox on Linux gave me bad margins too, whereas Chrome
         | on Linux printed perfectly :'(
        
       | StephenHerlihyy wrote:
       | My biggest hope for Elon's Mars plan is the chance to create a
       | whole new Calendar system that makes sense. Like honestly. 7 days
       | in a week? Random days per month? Uneven quarters? Who the hell
       | decided to put the leap day in February! Clearly it should be at
       | the beginning/end of the year. The western Calendar is nuts.
       | 
       | Why doesn't every month have 30 days with the last day of the
       | quarter having 31? Ohh leap year? December 32nd or January 0.
        
         | Y_Y wrote:
         | Musk may already have thought of this:
         | 
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
         | 
         |  _Vive la revolution!_
         | 
         | https://c.ndtvimg.com/2020-02/svbftvto_elon-musk-elon-musk-v...
        
       | wjgilmore wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | jedberg wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | vee-kay wrote:
       | The popup on the page doesn't close. It's irritating. Please fix
       | it.
        
         | chinathrow wrote:
         | Ctrl-p and it's gone.
        
       | sans_souse wrote:
       | Anyone able to print this via Android? When I tap 3-dots in
       | chrome - share-print I am getting an error
        
         | Y_Y wrote:
         | Probably because Chrome is shit, it prints fine on Android with
         | Firefox 146.
        
       | Y_Y wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | huhtenberg wrote:
       | Here's another, a bit more uniform and month-agnostic way to
       | format a year -
       | 
       | https://i.imgur.com/B9UEQw1.png
        
         | abetusk wrote:
         | What happens on leap years?
        
       | rufflepuff wrote:
       | "Above all else, be kind to others." Piss off.
        
       | JaviLopezG wrote:
       | Your app inspired me to make a collaborative version
       | 
       | https://calendar.yups.me/
        
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