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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 does the dark background mean? I could only see it inside my print preview (see Fiveplus comment). Otherwise I like.
Adding one letter to the day of the week would be way less confusing.
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.
Nice. It would be nice to have an option to create a per month print as well.
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!

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

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.
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]
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?

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.

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

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.

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/

That was a very nice read, thanks!

> I also removed the background color so we save ink on actual printing.

It seems reasonable to also remove the #post-title border-top:1rem solid var(--accent-dark) for the same reason? That and the padding-top on the same element struck me as unnecessarily moving the printed content down the page.

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.

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.

> 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.

Wow, I love this! Great job man
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.

Very nice, but on an A4 sheet the last row is cut off and you need to manually shrink it
great idea, just printed it out and this will do for my calendar next year!
Is it just me, or can't you close the big pop-in welcome info box on firefox ?
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.